Default alsa card

I'm using ALSA (w/ a 2.6 kernel) and I have two sound cards first being a C-Media CM8738 and second being a Creative Labs SB Live!. I want the SB Live! to be my primary card, but despite choosing emu10k1 (the SB Live! driver) in alsaconf, Debian (on bootup) still initializes the CM8738 card first

Error from X

Whenever I try to start xfontsel, the program pops up then soon after closes with these errors: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ xfontsel X Error of failed request: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation) Major opcode of failed request: 45 (X_OpenFont) Value in failed request: 0x352