david wrote: > Interestingly, in my machines, turning off internal sound cards in the > BIOS makes no difference to Linux whatsoever - Linux still finds the > card and installs support for it. > > Perhaps it depends on which integrated sound chip is there? Some BIOSes used with certain VIA AC'97 controllers disable the on-board device when another PCI sound card is found, even when the on-board device is enabled in the setup. For this reason, recent Linux kernels forcibly enable the on-board device regardless of the BIOS settings. Regards, Clemens _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user