#1808's stand-in search ranked ALSA devices only when the host's name read "ALSA", but cpal names it "Alsa". So the ranking never ran, and the first device ALSA lists won. On the reported machine that was `null`, which discards every sample, so sound stayed silent behind a warning that it was playing.
The check now compares the host's `HostId::Alsa` variant, so the ranking applies: `pipewire`, then `pulse`, then each card's own outputs, and never `null`.
The Linux crosscheck compiles it. The ranking's tests are #1808's.
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(cherry picked from commit 8a6c74036cfe3d00275fd75ad1aeae1f4ea7d0df)
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Absorbed into the octo fork. Generated docs reconciled: MAP.md stays ours, DEVIATIONS.md stays absent.
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