I am having issues with my sound..

Sometimes when I boot up I get the following when I cat /proc/asound/cards

[digitolx@ssureshot-pc ~]$ cat /proc/asound/cards
0 [NVidia ]: HDA-Intel - HDA NVidia
HDA NVidia at 0xd6000000 irq 225
1 [UART ]: MPU-401 UART - MPU-401 UART
MPU-401 UART at 0x330, irq 10
2 [CA0106 ]: CA0106 - CA0106
Audigy SE [SB0570] at 0xb000 irq 66

This is wrong, now My audigy should be default with the UART (onboard) being secondary. I will be setting this up for my microphone / headset.

Now if I restart I will get the following..

[digitolx@ssureshot-pc ~]$ cat /proc/asound/cards
0 [CA0106 ]: CA0106 - CA0106
Audigy SE [SB0570] at 0xb000 irq 66
1 [UART ]: MPU-401 UART - MPU-401 UART
MPU-401 UART at 0x330, irq 10

I'm not sure about what is even loading With the NVidia for sound..


Is there a way to default this to the second example?

After Farther research, what changes would I need to make tothe modprobe.conf

alias eth0 r8169
alias scsi_hostadapter sata_nv
alias scsi_hostadapter1 usb-storage
alias snd-card-0 snd-ca0106
remove snd-ca0106 { /usr/sbin/alsactl store 0 >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ; }; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-ca0106
options snd-hda-intel index=0
remove snd-hda-intel { /usr/sbin/alsactl store 0 >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ; }; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-hda-intel
alias snd-card-1 snd-mpu401
options snd-card-1 index=1
options snd-mpu401 index=1
remove snd-mpu401 { /usr/sbin/alsactl store 1 >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ; }; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-mpu401
# nvidia kernel module
alias char-major-195 nvidia-169_07
alias nvidia nvidia-169_07

I'm finding more on this and seeing it may be an alsa configuration issue?

Or is this a hardware issue?

nVidia HDA should be your sound card integrated on motherboard. 5.3 used Intel sound driver for them, 5.4 recognizes them and shows them as nVidia.

If you do not need integrated sound card, just disable it in BIOS an you are done.

I would like to set the the Nvidia up for my mic/headset.
I was under the impression the UART was onbaord.



Original question,

How can I force them to load in the correct order on boot every time?

Why does it not show the on board sound on the second example then?

I think UART is separate from actual sound card, but can not claim it. Try disabling sound card in BIOS but leaving UART enabled. If it works, then you might solve your problem.

I believe it's up to sound drivers. If they load first a driver for Audigy, integrated card might not be initialized at all. It cetainly looks llike that is the case, but I am not that knowable. I had Logitech QuickCam .... USB camera with microphone that would disable my soundcard at boot (drivers at least) if I left it pluged in. If I added it afterwords, it would see them and use them both.

you are correct, Under farther observation the nvidia is the onboard and CA0106 is the audigy.

It appears that when the NVidia loads it always loads first but when the Audigy loads first the NVidia doesn't load at all.

I need to figure out how to force them to load and force the order they load in.

Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.