sound card not found w/o speakers on?

rebelscum · 07-24-2005, 07:56 PM

I sound card is not found by hotplug unless the speakers are on. This is kind of irritating since I usually don't remember to turn them on until I need them. And I don't like excessive reboots. Anyone know what up with that? My card is Intel 82801BA-ICH2

Bruce Hill · 07-25-2005, 02:35 AM

Never have that problem here with SB Audigy ES card. Have you tried to modprobe your sound modules when this issue arrises? I believe for your sound you would issue as root

Code:

modprobe snd-intel8x0;modprobe snd-pcm-oss;modprobe snd-mixer-oss;modprobe snd-seq-oss

That is the only module for Intel soundcards, I believe. You can issue "/sbin/lspci" as a normal user and get the Multimedia audio controller output and check at the ALSA site for the correct modules if that's not it.

rebelscum · 07-25-2005, 10:37 AM

I think I have an old SB Live pci sond card I can put in, and that should take care of it. Thanks anyway though