>From the 'before' and 'after' lsmod listing, the M/B integrated soundcard is identified by the kernel as a snd_cmipci based sound chip -- whether you have it turned on or off in BIOS appears of no effect.
I had a similar un-cooperative on-board soundcard which I ultimately ended up blacklisting. I recommend you do the same by inserting the following 2 lines into your file /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist : # do not activate motherboard sound chip blacklist snd-cmipci (My soundcard modules was the via-snd82xx and I inserted the 2 lines immediately following the block ending with "blacklist usbkbd".) After that, reboot your machine -- no longer should modules snd_cmipci _and_ snd_opl3_lib appear under lspci from the reboot -- these modules actually prevented your SoundBlaster 128 from being activated. Now you _should_ have complete sound from the get-go. HTH, Hendrik Rick Norman wrote: > I've posted the before and after output from lsmod below... > > before alsaconf (sound blaster not working): > snd 44964 13 > snd_ens1371,snd_ac97_codec,snd_cmipci,snd_pcm,snd_opl3_lib,snd_hwdep,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device > snd_ac97_codec 88228 1 snd_ens1371 > snd_cmipci 28544 1 > snd_ens1371 18720 0 > snd_hwdep 6148 1 snd_opl3_lib > snd_mpu401_uart 6400 1 snd_cmipci > snd_opl3_lib 9344 1 snd_cmipci > snd_page_alloc 7816 1 snd_pcm > snd_pcm 60680 3 snd_ens1371,snd_ac97_codec,snd_cmipci > snd_rawmidi 18592 3 snd_ens1371,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_seq_midi > snd_seq 40784 2 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event > snd_seq_device 6412 4 > snd_opl3_lib,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq > snd_seq_midi 5664 0 > snd_seq_midi_event 6528 1 snd_seq_midi > snd_timer 17668 3 snd_pcm,snd_opl3_lib,snd_seq > soundcore 6112 1 snd > > after alsaconf (sound blaster working): > snd 44964 7 > snd_ens1371,snd_rawmidi,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device > snd_ac97_codec 88228 1 snd_ens1371 > snd_ens1371 18720 0 > snd_page_alloc 7816 1 snd_pcm > snd_pcm 60680 2 snd_ens1371,snd_ac97_codec > snd_rawmidi 18592 2 snd_ens1371,snd_seq_midi > snd_seq 40784 2 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event > snd_seq_device 6412 3 snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq > snd_seq_midi 5664 0 > snd_seq_midi_event 6528 1 snd_seq_midi > snd_timer 17668 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq > soundcore 6112 1 snd > > I'm going to get him to try the on-board sound and see if that will work > on boot... if it does, maybe he can use that instead. _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
