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... > > > Rob. > > > > > > > > > >
