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Re: alsactl names finds nothing - Thanks



On Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 04:59:11PM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 09:35:38 -0500, Thomas H. George wrote:
> > On Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 01:56:46PM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> > > On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 08:23:07 -0500, Thomas H. George wrote:
> > > > Suddenly no sound.  Alsamixer shows it is using the motherboard  
> > > > soundcard and the speakers are connected to the Creative Labs pci card.   
> 
> [...]
> 
> The problem might be that snd-via82xx gets loaded first and assigned
> index 0. This would block snd-emu10k1 from having that index and ALSA
> might not handle this situation gracefully. Loading firmware is another
> thing that can go wrong, although I would not expect to see the EMU10k1
> module listed at all in that case.
> 
> Try to add the following two lines to /etc/modprobe.d/sound:
> 
> alias snd-card-1 snd-via82xx
> options snd-via82xx index=1
> 
> Then reboot and check if /proc/asound/cards lists the EMU10k1. 
> 
>
Thanks Florian, this fixed the problem - Tom

For the record I also tried Nigel's idea of adding

install snd_via82xx /bin/true

to /etc/modprobe.d/sound but this did nothing (perhaps because he used
an underscore instead of a hyphen?) - Tom

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