[PlanetCCRMA] how to prevent modem loading as default audio device

[izzy]

I recently upgraded from Fedora core 4 to 5. It is running on my laptop 
with an RME Multiface and an onboard "Intel Corporation 82801CA/CAM 
AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)"  They are configured as -

# "alias snd-card-0 snd-hdsp" and "alias snd-card-1 snd-intel8x0"

So far, so good!

The problem is that the  modem ends up as 'default' pcm_device often as 
not instead of  'snd-intel8x0'  (I prefer to use the onboard sound card 
as default for media players, etc)

I've tried to override this by adding a line in '/etc/modprobe.cong'- 
"alias snd-modemname off" as per the alsa wiki, but I'm not quite sure 
of the syntax? or proper incantation?

Currently, I have - alias snd-modem snd-intel-ICH3  off

Not sure if this really working or if I just got lucky as it booted. 
(indeed that is the case) I had something like 'alias snd-conextant off" 
and some other variations and it seemed hit or miss as to what got 
loaded first at boot.

This is my 'lspci' output for the Intel soundcard-

#  $ /sbin/lspci
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801CA/CAM AC'97 
Audio Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corporation 82801CA/CAM AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 
02)

and

# $ /sbin/lspci -v
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801CA/CAM AC'97 
Audio Controller (rev 02)
       Subsystem: Cirrus Logic Crystal WMD Audio Codec
       Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 5
       I/O ports at d800 [size=256]
       I/O ports at dc80 [size=64]

00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corporation 82801CA/CAM AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 
02) (prog-if 00 [Generic])
       Subsystem: Conexant MD56ORD V.92 MDC Modem
       Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 5
       I/O ports at d400 [size=256]
       I/O ports at dc00 [size=128]

The Gnome audio preferences list the Intel devices as "Intel 
82801CA-ICH3 (Alsa mixer)" and "Intel 82801CA-ICH3 Modem (Alsa Mixer"

This is my '/etc/modprobe.conf'

# $ cat /etc/modprobe.conf
alias eth0 3c59x
alias snd-modem snd-intel-ICH3  off
alias snd-card-0 snd-hdsp
options snd-card-0 index=0
options snd-hdsp index=0
remove snd-hdsp { /usr/sbin/alsactl store 0 >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ; }; 
/sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-hdsp
alias snd-card-1 snd-intel8x0
options snd-card-1 index=1
options snd-intel8x0 index=1
remove snd-intel8x0 { /usr/sbin/alsactl store 1 >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ; 
}; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-intel8x0

That is probably not right, but I'm just guessing here. Any help would 
be very appreciated.

Thanks,
Izzy