On Monday 13 August 2007 08:31:44 Timothy Klaver wrote: > Why is it that every time I restart my computer KMix resets my sound > settings? I set it to 'SB Live 5.1', but every time I turn on my > computer it is set back to 'NVidia nForce 2' (motherboard). Is this a > flaw within Kubuntu? I have run Live CDs for Mandriva 2007 and Fedora > Core 7, not to mention installing Linspire once, and they all configure > my soundcard on-the-fly. Kubuntu continually leaves me without sound. > Even Kopete, when I set all the sound notifications so I know when > people are messaging me, quit giving sound on a reboot. What's up with > that? How can I remedy this? I'm new to Linux and desire things to work > the way they're supposed to. I'm enjoying Kubuntu (KDE for the most > part) and would like very much to completely do away with Windows. Thank > you for any help I can get. > ___________________________________________________ > This message is from the kde mailing list. > Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. > Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. > More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html. It may be you need to configure alsa to load the other soundcard. Have you tried this from Ubuntu Forums on multiple soundcards: In a shell, type cat /proc/asound/modules I have onboard Nvidia and a soundblaster soundcard and I get this 0 snd_emu10k1 1 snd_mpu401 2 snd_intel8x0 This will give the the name and index of each soundcard you have currently. Make a note of the names, and decide which one you want to be the default card. Now type sudo nano /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base At the very end of the file, add the following (assuming you have 3 cards with module names A, B and C and you want to have them in the order CAB) options snd-C index=0 options snd-A index=1 options snd-B index=2 The emu10k1 is the one I want to load so the last few lines of my alsa-base looks like this: # Ubuntu #62691, enable MPU for snd-cmipci options snd-cmipci mpu_port=0x330 fm_port=0x388 options snd-snd_emu10k1 index=-0 options snd-snd_mpu401 index=-1 options snd-intel8x0 index=-2 If you are still having problems with the wrong soundcard loading you may be running Edgy. Try upgrading to Fesity. I found that in Edgy even with this setup I had to reboot 4 or more times until it picked up the right soundcard. RL-S ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.