On Fri, 18 Apr 2014 11:55:40 -0700 (PDT) Len Ovens <len@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Thu, 17 Apr 2014, david wrote: > > > I've discovered on my desktop that if I disable the onboard audio (which I > > don't use at all), ALSA doesn't load or start. > > My multi-tracking audio card is pci so the system is seeing it before alsa > loads, that may not be the case with USB audio. In fact with a PCI sound > card, the bios may have to deal with it before the kernel ever sees the > system, so it is the same as an internal card. This was my experience too. PCI card and you can disable the motherboard sound. USB card and you can't. -- Will J Godfrey http://www.musically.me.uk Say you have a poem and I have a tune. Exchange them and we can both have a poem, a tune, and a song. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
