On Tuesday 23 December 2008 11:31:11 Marc Chamberlin wrote:
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I can not say a whole lot about the sound system that is on the motherboard itself, other than to say that drivers which are installed for it have a name prefix of CX88. I never use (or want to) this sound chip and in fact have disabled it in the BIOS. But despite that, SuSE and ALSA seem to be finding it. And if that is the chip that is in fact being activated for my sound, then it is no wonder I cannot hear any sound. (since nothing is hooked up to it)
The sound setup tool in YaST only reports the Audigy Sound card BUT when I run Alsaconf to set it up I am getting the following error messages -
Loading driver... Shutting down sound driver ERROR: Module snd_pcm is in use by cx88_alsa ERROR: Module snd_timer is in use by snd_pcm ERROR: Module snd_page_alloc is in use by snd_pcm ERROR: Module snd is in use by cx88_alsa, snd_pmc, snd_timer
Try running rmmod cx88_alsa (or modprobe -r cx88_alsa), then re-run alsaconf. You may need to manually run modprobe -i <audigy driver module> but I'm not sure. If that works, try blacklisting the cx88_alsa module by adding it to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist - this will tell the system not to load that module automatically, despite apparently finding the hardware. You can still explicitly load it via modprobe. It may also be worth checking to see that the module for the audigy card is not actually blacklisted too. If it is, even though you can load it as described above it will not be loaded automatically. Hope this helps. Rodney. -- =================================================== Rodney Baker VK5ZTV rodney.baker@iinet.net.au ===================================================