[ale] second sound card

[jheim at math.wisc.edu (John G. Heim)]

I recently put a second sound card in my PC running debian lenny. The 
problem is that each time I reboot, it seems to randomly choose whichcard is 
first and which is second.  I just want the card built into the motherboard 
to be the #1 sound card.

I googled for this problem and all I find are pages that give an incredibly 
complicated procedure for fixing this. Here's an example:
http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php/MultipleCards

Is it really that difficult?