On Wednesday 05 December 2007 10:00, david wrote: > Clemens Ladisch wrote: > > 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. > > So how can I forcibly DISABLE the onboard device in Linux? I don't want > the silly thing at all - it's presence interferes with using the PCI > sound card. Hi David. You could try the following line for the unwanted snd module, in /etc/modprobe.conf (fedora), or in /etc/modules.d/alsa-base (Kubuntu, Debian). install snd-intel8x0 /bin/true Change the snd module above for your unwanted one. All the best. Nigel. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
