Guest boonders Posted December 14, 2002 Report Share Posted December 14, 2002 I just installed a new motherboard (asus a7v8x), and there aren't any drivers for the onboard sound, like my previous board, so I put my SoundBlaster Live 5.1 card back in, but I can't get it to configure properly. If I goto mandrake control center, then hardware, then hardware list, then click on "SB Live! (audio)", and then click on "Run Config tool", It does not give me a list of drivers to choose from like it used to. It says "Your card currently use the ALSA "snd-via866" driver (default driver for your card is snd-emu10k1". And then in the drop down box, it just has "DSP audio and mixer driver for Via 82Cxxx audio devices)", no other options. I used to be able to select the emu10k1 driver before (mandrake 8.2) I'm running Mandrake 9.0, and i origianlyl installed this distribution with the SB live card installed. THANKS! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cannonfodder Posted December 15, 2002 Report Share Posted December 15, 2002 I don't know much about sound boards, but the first thing to do in any case is insure your volume is turned up. Too much work has been done to fix non-existant problems simply because the volume was set at zero :wink: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Mandrake_Mouse Posted December 17, 2002 Report Share Posted December 17, 2002 Also, make sure you disabled your onboard sound. This is usually accomplished with a jumper setting on the motherboard. The system won't see your SB card until the onboard sound is disabled. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtweidmann Posted December 17, 2002 Report Share Posted December 17, 2002 A lot of modern boards have BIOS settings instead/as well as jumpers, lot less fiddley. Here is a good site that has got guides on how to configure/use ALSA: http://www.djcj.org/LAU/guide/index.php Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
afrosheen Posted December 18, 2002 Report Share Posted December 18, 2002 On my motherboard the bios has a section in the 'integrated peripherals' section where you can disable the onboard sound and nic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest anon Posted December 18, 2002 Report Share Posted December 18, 2002 I don't see the point in playing with your bios, jumpers, etc, just to disable onboard sound. Simple edit your /modules.conf file and put a # in front of the card you want to disable. Easy-peezy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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