Hi,

I´m new to Linux. I´ve installed Mandrake Linux v9.1 and when I connect my SoundBlaster Extigy the system hangs.

It took me several installs before I found that it was causing the system to hang after the initial install reboot. With it removed istallation was a breeze.

From a cold boot with it connected the system hangs at the point, ¨looking for dependacies¨. Reset required.

Hot connection causes the system to freeze. A cold start is required to get out of the loop.

Hardware List: ASUS A7V333 M/B, Athlon 1800XP, 512MB DDR, ASUS V8440 Vid.

(SoundBlaster Extigy works well under Windows ME & XP)

I hope it is an oversite on my behalf. All help and sugestions welcome.

OK.... just so I have it right, you have a working Mandy install, and you are now adding the extigy? First thing, do you have on-board sound? If so, make sure that it is disabled in the BIOS. Extigy is a pretty popular card, and I know its a possibility in Linux. Disable your on board sound, and if you don't have anything important on the system, try a fresh install again with the extigy.

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I've been facing the same problem as sparramc on a laptop. It's impossible to disable the internal soundcard through BIOS (the SET UP is quite simple and limited).

I have an external (USB) SB Extigy and MDK 9.1 comes wigh ALSA drivers and libs in version 0.9.0.

Whenever I plug the extigy in the usb port I got the same sparramc's
problem.

I've already enabled the snd-usb-audio driver in the sound driver control panel (mcc > hardware), but aumix crashes and alsamixer says:

lsmod | grep snd shows:
cat/etc/modules.conf says:
In modules.conf it seems that the system is trying to load the same driver to different cards, doesn't it?

What to do?
Any help or input will be very much appreciated.

After much effort and persistence (more than 5 re-installations) I've gotten everything here working like a charm. The system stopped hanging in "finding modules dependencies" line during booting time.

Some considerations must be taken into account:

1. I have both linux and windows installed on my notebook;
2. Notebooks are well known as having some limitations with Bios setup;
3. Alsa is disabled in DrakXservices im mcc; (Linux ins't using alsa driver but OSS Driver)

The only thing I did was to log in windows system and go to sound configuration in "control panel" to disable Extigy as being the default sound card letting windows assumes the internal notebook's sound card....

I haven't had the guts to simulate the previous situation in order to check if this trick was really responsible for solving the problem. Anyway, at this time I'm not very interested in coming back to windows. As soon as I found myself forced to go there I'll let you know what happened.

If you want to use it, Alsa driver, libs and utls come with mdk 9.1 it's not necessary to download and reinstall it.

People, possibly my statements here can sound a little stupid, but consider that I am a new linux user (3 months) and just trying to add some value and information to everybody.

My modules.conf at this moment:
Good Luck!

forget my previous post, after re-installing linux for the last time:

1. running a fresh MDK 9.1 system without any updates(don't waste your time);
2. alsa service is disabled;
3. using oss drivers 1.2.7 ;
4. in mcc harddrake, the Sound Blaster Extigy was detected under unknown/others (question mark) tab:
   Vendor: Creative Technology Ltd.
   Bus: ?USB
   Description: ?Sound Blaster Extigy
   Module: ?unknown
   Media class: ?Audio|Control Device

What I did...
In a terminal I typed:
my lsmod says:
maestro3 is my internal sound card and despite alsa being disabled "snd" drivers come from alsa.
Strange, but I've already simulated this situation for 2 times and everything worked well.
With the time I will be able to explain better the meanings of this situation.

Sorry for being so repetitive with this lonely thread.