Re: [LAU] hardware - Intel CPUs

From: Will Godfrey <willgodfrey@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Fri Apr 18 2014 - 22:27:34 EEST

On Fri, 18 Apr 2014 11:55:40 -0700 (PDT)
Len Ovens <len@email-addr-hidden> wrote:

>
> On Thu, 17 Apr 2014, david wrote:
>
> > I've discovered on my desktop that if I disable the onboard audio (which I
> > don't use at all), ALSA doesn't load or start.
>
> My multi-tracking audio card is pci so the system is seeing it before alsa
> loads, that may not be the case with USB audio. In fact with a PCI sound
> card, the bios may have to deal with it before the kernel ever sees the
> system, so it is the same as an internal card.

This was my experience too. PCI card and you can disable the motherboard
sound. USB card and you can't.

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