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[dolari]

Fifth times a charm, huh? Linux REALLY hates having two sound cards in the system, and loves to flip between the two randomly.... At least each time I install it, it stays on the system longer and longer....

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[kisai.livejournal.com]

This will probably sound silly, but Compile the kernel with both sound card types as modules, and then define one before the other in the module list (ie, manually load the sound card you want first) Otherwise you are leaving PnP system to do whatever it wants.

[kisai.livejournal.com]

(this is what I did with the IDE controllers and it works, I compiled the motherboard chipset into the kernel and then the pci card IDE controller as a module, therefor it loaded the module last. This might not work for a sound card set since I had problems trying to get sound to work when it wasn't compiled as a module. Then again motherboard AC97 codecs are silly.)

[jenndolari.livejournal.com]

I only used the old soundcard for old DOS games (I still have a Win98 Partition for DOS games XP chokes on). I moved it to my older backups machine. If I need to reinstall the soundcard again, though, I'll definately add it back, and compile them as modules instead.

uh, it's simple, just do this and that and then....

[lisalees.livejournal.com]

You can control what happens at boot with /etc/modules.conf

If you're using an up-to-date release and a sound system such
as ALSA, you should be able to have and use two sound cards.
There are config files for the ALSA stuff, too.

Re: uh, it's simple, just do this and that and then....

[jenndolari.livejournal.com]

I did have ALSA, and told it to use the onboard sound. But I noticed what was happening was if something like XMMS player was running, and Gaim had an IM, nbo sound would come out, and the computer would default to the old Soundblaster as the default sound card. I just simply took it out (it was used only for old DOS games that wouldn't play in XP) and plugged it into my older backups machine.

Although, as Kisai said, if I need to reinstall again (I'm hell on OSes) I'll add it back in and install it as a module instead.