Re: Newbie: How-to Disable onboard sound

[Joachim Fahnenmüller <jfahnenmueller@web.de>]

Hi Roger,

On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 10:47:18PM -0400, Roger Creasy wrote:
> Hello:
> 
> I am trying to get ALSA to use an Ensonic 1371 sound card instead of
> the onboard card. I cannot find a way to disable the onboard card in
> the bios. 

Read your motherboard's manual. On mine, it is not done by BIOS setting, but by
a jumper on the motherboard.

> Also, I want to use Audacity, but get errors when it starts.

Start audacity from the commandline and post the error messages displayed.
Do other sound programs work?

> any suggestions? If you need more info, let me know what you need and
> how I can find it, and I will post it.

HTH
-- 
Joachim Fahnenmüller