On Wed, 4 Oct 2017 21:47:52 -1000, david wrote: >On 10/04/2017 08:21 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >> 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. > >Don't know about the original poster's situation, but disabling the >onboard audio on my laptop via BIOS meant that Debian came up with no >audio at all. Blacklisting the module worked better. > >As far as by "leaving it active", perhaps he means his system >adamantly insists on making the on-board audio the default audio >device for everything? My desktop system has onboard HDMI audio. Since >it's connected to an HDMI monitor, the system would make the HDMI >audio the default device. Not useful since the monitor has no >speakers ... same here, simply ensure that the device can't become hw:0 [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ cat /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf # ALSA module ordering options snd slots=snd_hdspm,snd_ice1712,snd_ice1712 [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ aplay -l | grep HDMI card 3: HDMI [HDA Intel HDMI], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0] card 3: HDMI [HDA Intel HDMI], device 7: HDMI 1 [HDMI 1] card 3: HDMI [HDA Intel HDMI], device 8: HDMI 2 [HDMI 2] card 3: HDMI [HDA Intel HDMI], device 9: HDMI 3 [HDMI 3] card 3: HDMI [HDA Intel HDMI], device 10: HDMI 4 [HDMI 4] Regards, Ralf -- Guerilla Open Access Manifesto: https://archive.org/stream/GuerillaOpenAccessManifesto/Goamjuly2008_djvu.txt _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
