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Old 05-11-2005, 03:44 PM   #1
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2 soundcards-not detected


hey guys this is my 1st post here but i have found the answers to many issies on here previously.

I have had mandrake 10.1 for a while now and sound has been ok in the past (few issues with ndiswrapper) but it has worked, (with one onboard soundcard), i now have 2 soundcards one the onboard via chip on an MSI KT-6V MoBo, the other a cheap cmedia card that i only really wanted the gameport from. im using the mobo card as the sound is better from there, only problem is when mandrake boots, both the modules for both the soundcards load, but no cards are detected, after running alsaconf sucsesfully for each card, still i get nothing, when i load alsa mixer, the cmedia card is active, firstyly can anyone tell me how to either remove the cmedia card from mandrake so i can use my onboard card or select it as default. this may solve the issues, but i doubt it as the cards or not detected at boot. any help would be appreciated

lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8377 [KT400/KT600 AGP] Host Bridge (rev 80)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 PCI Bridge
00:05.0 Multimedia audio controller: C-Media Electronics Inc CM8738 (rev 10)
00:06.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 03)
00:07.0 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 43)
00:07.1 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 43)
00:07.2 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB 2.0 (rev 04)
00:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82557/8/9 [Ethernet Pro 100] (rev 08)
00:0a.0 Communication controller: Intel Corp. 536EP Data Fax Modem
00:0f.0 RAID bus controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VIA VT6420 SATA RAID Controller (rev 80)
00:0f.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
00:10.4 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 86)
00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 ISA bridge [K8T800 South]
00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 60)
00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 78)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 00f2 (rev a2)

using mandrake 10.1 kernel 2.6.8.1-12mdk


Thanx again
 
Old 05-12-2005, 12:46 PM   #2
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I have a similar problem

2 soundcards (onboard from via km133) and a sb 512pci

Onbard sound has been being disabled in the bios. Nevertheless the onboard sound device is the onlyone I am allowed to choose in the various mixer applications like gamix, alsamix, ... .

The sblive512 is listed in alsaconf but it seems it is not regarded as the default sound device by linux (agnula/demudi/debian).

So NO SOUND at all.
 
Old 05-14-2005, 03:53 PM   #3
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Fixed

OK i managed to fix my problem, maybe this can help with yours,

after trying mandriva to see if the issue was resolved (which it wasnt), i tried all the alsaconf commands and still no sound.

eventually, opened a terminal and opened /etc/modprobe.conf as root, with gedit, and commented (using the # key) out all lines refering to the soundcard i didnt want to use. After a reboot all was fine (though i cant now use the volume slider in gnome, but then i never did anyway)

All seems to be working fine for me now

Hope it helps

Terra_novauk
 
Old 05-18-2005, 10:48 AM   #4
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Unfortunately there is no /etc/modprobe.conf.

There are folders like
- "modules"
- "modutils" (is used by alsaconfig)
- "alsa" folder in /etc.

There is also a file called modules.conf.

I searched a lot of folders, but I have not found any modprope.conf!

lsmod shows various VIA devices (the wrong one).
It seems the disabling of the VIA sound does not work proerly.

Last edited by g-string 3; 05-18-2005 at 03:56 PM.
 
  


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