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Re: How do I tell Debian what the correct soundcard is?



On Friday 14 January 2005 12:02 pm, Striplin, Phil wrote:
> Debian Sarge, 2.6.8 kernel, running on a PC (Athlon processor, MCI KT3
> motherboard with onboard sound from a Realtek ALC 650 chip - ie AC97).
>
> For some reason, immediately after boot, if I start up alsamixer it
> thinks it's working with a totally different soundcard (a Brooktree Bt
> 878, if it matters).  No sound, obviously.  There never has been such a
> soundcard on the system If I run alsaconf, it finds the correct
> soundcard OK, and sound works fine.  Until I boot again, when it
> reverts.
<snip>

If it's changing configuration upon booting, I would suspect that the Discover 
package has something to do with it. Try disabling discover (man update-rc.d) 
and see if that makes a difference.

-- 

...Rob



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