Re: sound woes... solved!

A bit late I know.....but there was no option to shut off the on board
sound in the BIOS?

On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 9:28 PM, Rob McKennon <[email protected]> wrote:

>   Working on computers all day long as a day job, then coming home to work
> on my own computer is no fun.  Especially after RTFM-ing and G-ingMAO on
> this particular problem for over 2 weeks.  But I am a hacker, and I WILL
> WIN.
>   The problem initially, was playing midi music through Rosegarden (a
> music editing program).  I could do this before with my old computer and my
> old SoundBlaster card, but no luck with the new computer and onboard
> super-wham-o-dyne HD sound chip.  So.. I decided to put in my old
> SoundBlaster card and see what happens.  Good news, the system detected the
> archaic card, and after much configuration on the software side, I got it
> to play!  Bad news... every time I reboot, the onboard sound chip comes up
> as the default sound device.
>   Now... The sound devices are managed by "ALSA" (/Advanced Linux Sound
> Architecture), and are detected by udev when the system boots up.  You
> configure ALSA with the wonderful command "alsaconf".   After exiting, it
> saves your configuration in the //etc/modprobe.d/sound.conf file.  After
> running alsaconf, you are invited to run alsamixer set the default device
> and to set the sound levels.  Then you test them out with the command
> "aplay -vv file.wav".   But... after rebooting... guess what... the onboard
> is again the default device... arrrgghhh!
>   Tonight I re-read this url: //http://wiki.linuxaudio.org/**
> faq/start?redirect=1 <http://wiki.linuxaudio.org/faq/start?redirect=1>and noticed something about the /etc/modprobe.d/backlist.conf file.  This
> file tells udev and ALSA not to load specific drivers for certain hardware.
>  I noticed that the driver for my legacy SoundBlaster card was in this
> file.  I commented it out, rebooted and now my SoundBlaster card comes up
> as the default sound card, and all is well.
>
> I hope this post helps someone with future woes...
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> Rob.
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