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| Thread ID: 73378 | 2006-10-17 07:20:00 | Linux - Avoiding random selection of sound card | personthingy (1670) | Press F1 |
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| 492150 | 2006-10-17 07:20:00 | I got a new free computer, and onboard sound is ...Well..... Shall we say less than satisfactory? So i added a card. KMix sees the onboard as "C-Media PCI CM18738" and the card i added, which is adequate for playing music through at home, is seen as "Ensonic Audio PCI" the problem is that every time i boot up, its a gamble which card is going to work, and all the settings for the Ensonic are lost. At one point both were working, which wouldn't be too bad a solution, if it's not too system hungry. Free computers aren't that powerful ;) I'm assuming that there is a way to tell the system to ignore the onboard sound device, and use only the Ensonic card? I'm running what started as Mepis 3.4.3, although its so updated it's really more up to the minute Debian by now. Can anyway guide me on this one? |
personthingy (1670) | ||
| 492151 | 2006-10-17 08:56:00 | Recompiling the kernel is fun! Recompile the kernel to exclude the driver for the onboard card. In fact, make it a loadable module in case you need to use it later. Even better, make both drivers modules, so that you can load one or the other at will. Load them automatically through the kernel module loader. |
vinref (6194) | ||
| 492152 | 2006-10-17 09:27:00 | Go into the CMOS setup and disable the on-board sound? | johnd (85) | ||
| 492153 | 2006-10-17 09:31:00 | EEK! the kernel! Well that would be a trip into uncharted territory for me. I was kinda hoping i could tweak some yet unfound conf file or something. |
personthingy (1670) | ||
| 492154 | 2006-10-17 09:33:00 | Go into the CMOS setup and disable the on-board sound? i did spend some time failing to find anyway of ignoring or switching of the onboard sound.... | personthingy (1670) | ||
| 492155 | 2006-10-17 09:38:00 | i did spend some time failing to find anyway of ignoring or switching of the onboard sound.... I would be surprised if it is not there somewhere? |
johnd (85) | ||
| 492156 | 2006-10-17 09:54:00 | I would be surprised if it is not there somewhere?So was i, but i just rebooted, had a look through every menu and every sub menu of the BIOS, and again found nothing relating to onboard sound. I'll post the BIOS version tommorow.... | personthingy (1670) | ||
| 492157 | 2006-10-17 23:40:00 | What distro are you using? You should be able to disable the card easily, no need to mess around with the BIOS. | TGoddard (7263) | ||
| 492158 | 2006-10-17 23:44:00 | What distro are you using? You should be able to disable the card easily, no need to mess around with the BIOS.I'm running what started as Mepis 3.4.3, although its so updated it's really more up to the minute Debian by now. I'm sure there is an easy way, the hard bit is knowing what i is. |
personthingy (1670) | ||
| 492159 | 2006-10-24 03:13:00 | The solution..... Let my son go through the BIOS, and under chip conf, he finds some reference to on board sound, and turns it off.... :blush: :D |
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