Re: Sound card not working

[Chris Lale <chrislale@untrammelled.co.uk>]

Mike McCarty wrote:
> Chris Lale wrote:
>>
>> dmesg indicates that a Via chipset has been detected:
>>     Via 686a/8233/8235 audio driver 1.9.1-ac3
>>
>> The Alsa Soundcard Matrix[1] indicates that this is built into the
>> motherboard
>> ("VIA southbridge AC97 audio").
> 
> I just talked on the 'phone, and this is not a built-in card.
> It is some version or other of a SoundBlaster.

Makes me wonder whether this is the classic two card problem (PCI and built-in).
Run alsaconf to check [1].

[1] http://newbiedoc.berlios.de/wiki/Sound_in_Debian_GNU/Linux#Check_your_hardware

-- 
Chris.