Nigel Henry wrote: [...] > > Hi Gerd. Thanks for all the info. Even though the cards are ordered correctly > in /proc/asound/cards, I think there is some conflict going on between > snd-intel8x0, and snd-hda-intel (which appears to be being loaded due to this > sound component on your new graphics card). I say this because if you look at > snd-hwdep on your lsmod above, it shows as below. > snd_hwdep 7492 1 snd_hda_intel > > It should be showing snd-intel8x0, not snd-hda-intel, and I think if you > removed your new graphics card, and rebooted, you would find that is so, and > your sounds would come back. The answer I believe is to prevent snd-hda-intel > being loaded when you bootup. > > There's a couple of things, I'd suggest. > 1st: If you have an /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist file, blacklist snd_hda_intel. > This doesn't always work though, so, as an alternative. > 2nd: Create an entry in /etc/modprobe.conf as below. > install snd_hda_intel /bin/true > > This should load the module in /bin/true where it can't do anything at all. > > See if either of those resolves the problem. Another alternative is to > rename/remove the snd_hda_intel module in /lib/modules for your kernel, and > this way the kernel will not be able to load it, because it won't be able to > find it. > Hi Nigel, thanks again for your answer. Meanwhile the situation has changed: I reinstalled my linux OS. Somewhat strange: the sound module on the graphics card gets not recognized correctly: the hardware detection marks it as "unknown" and no driver / kernel module for it is loaded. Nevertheless no sound on the ac97 (kernel modules snd-intel8x0 is loaded). I feel somewhat helpless :-( Gerd -- ------------------------------------------------------ -- Gerd Schering, Email: Schering@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- TU Berlin, tubIT IT-Service-Center -- -- Sekr. E-N 50, Einsteinufer 17, 10587 Berlin -- -- phone: +49 30 314 24383, fax: +49 30 314 21060 -- ------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
