Vivek Ayer wrote: >Hi all, > >I think I just noticed that many of the programs I have like Enemy >Territory, Skype, Realplayer don't have sound because I have two cards >installed. First is from the nforce2 motherboard so that uses the >nvsound module I think. It's also OSS. The one I want to use is my >emu10k1, which uses alsa. Xmms works fine in ALSA as well as other >programs like neverball. But when I start enemy territory, in the >console it says that sound is muted. Of course, it's not on my emu10k1 >card, but is most likely muted on the nforce card, which means it is >directly calling for that sound card. Enemy Territory uses OSS, but I >can make my emu10k1 uses oss. The nforce sounds uses nvsound. When I >modprobe -r that, /dev/dsp and /dev/mixer go away (and /dev/sound/dsp >and /dev/sound/mixer). Then when I start enemy territory, it says >/dev/dsp is not found obviously. Also, if I try aoss et, to emulate >oss on the alsa card, the sound output is very bad, which means the >only I can get it work is by simply removing the nforce driver card? >et only cares about what comes out of /dev/dsp, so is there anyway to >point /dev/dsp (/dev/sound/dsp) to the audigy card not the nvidia >motherboard sound? Thanks a bunch. > >Vivek Ayer > >_______________________________________________ >arch mailing list >[email protected] >http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch > > > On most motherboards I have seen, you can go into the BIOS and disable the on board sound card. I think that would be the best thing to do in this situation if you choose not to use it. I don't use my on board sound in favor of my Audigy 2 card.
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