On Wednesday 05 December 2007 10:00, david wrote:
> Clemens Ladisch wrote:
> > david wrote:
> >> Interestingly, in my machines, turning off internal sound cards in the
> >> BIOS makes no difference to Linux whatsoever - Linux still finds the
> >> card and installs support for it.
> >>
> >> Perhaps it depends on which integrated sound chip is there?
> >
> > Some BIOSes used with certain VIA AC'97 controllers disable the on-board
> > device when another PCI sound card is found, even when the on-board
> > device is enabled in the setup. For this reason, recent Linux kernels
> > forcibly enable the on-board device regardless of the BIOS settings.
>
> So how can I forcibly DISABLE the onboard device in Linux? I don't want
> the silly thing at all - it's presence interferes with using the PCI
> sound card.
Hi David. You could try the following line for the unwanted snd module,
in /etc/modprobe.conf (fedora), or in /etc/modules.d/alsa-base (Kubuntu,
Debian).
install snd-intel8x0 /bin/true
Change the snd module above for your unwanted one.
All the best.
Nigel.
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