two souncards

Sjaaksken · 03-19-2004, 11:02 PM

Hi,

I recently installed mandrake 10.0 and untill now everything 's working fine except the sound.

I have two soundcards 1) a terratec dmx fire
2) a creative sb live

Now mandrake selects the terratec as default but that driver doesn't work right. On earlier versions I 've always used the creative but now I can't find how I can make mandrake only use the creative one. Any suggestions?

Thx in advance

usernamenumber · 03-20-2004, 11:42 AM

Add the following to /etc/modules.conf

alias sound-slot-0 <drivername>

where <drivername> is the name of the module that your Creative card uses.

You may have to reboot (ie there's probably a way around it, but I don't know what it is), but that should fix your problem.

Hope this helps,
--Brad

isbaran · 05-22-2004, 07:34 AM

please can you help me
i have an onboard sound card it writes CMedia and a Creative Sound Blaster but i have no sound i'm a new user and have mandrake 10 what should i do
thanks

SpItoS · 05-22-2004, 01:32 PM

I just installed mandrake aswell and checked my modules.conf and everything is fine. All my drivers are ok but no sound. I tried /sbin/lsmod and all my sound modules are there. Any help would be appreciated.

Edit: I fixed it by disabling my onboard soundcard in bios.

isbaran · 05-24-2004, 01:51 AM

I made sth and now my onboard card is active how did you disable the onboard ?? And isn't there anybody to teach to activate my creative??

usernamenumber · 05-24-2004, 11:32 AM

To disable the onboard sound card in BIOS, try this:

When your computer starts, it should say something like "Press del to enter setup". Press whatever key it tells you to and then start looking for a setting about the onboard audio device so you can turn it off.

After that your other card may just work. If it doesn't, run the command 'lspci' and paste the output here. Hopefully someone will be able to tell you what driver that card uses so you can set up your modules.conf manually.