Re: sound woes... solved!

I am a bit curious about that myself.
What about the option to uninstall the drivers from the CD or DVD that
presumably came with the motherboard?


On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 8:24 AM, Gene Cronk <[email protected]> wrote:

> A bit late I know.....but there was no option to shut off the on board
> sound in the BIOS?
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> On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 9:28 PM, Rob McKennon <[email protected]>
> wrote:
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> >   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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