On Wed, 4 Oct 2017 16:32:00 -0500, Jan Depner wrote: >blacklist snd_hda_intel > >because that caused all sorts of grief if I left it active. Hi, that's hard to believe. What do you mean by "left it active"? Could you please give a few examples? What happens? Disabling the onboard audio device by the BIOS settings is a good idea, if it's anyway unneeded, but this shouldn't necessarily be required, to improve something, let alone that removing the module shouldn't make a difference. Regards, Ralf _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user