[LAU] emi 2 | 6: after upgrade from ubuntustudio 7.04-7.10, alsa works, but no jack

[Nigel Henry]

On Wednesday 05 December 2007 10:00, david wrote:
> Clemens Ladisch wrote:
> > david wrote:
> >> Interestingly, in my machines, turning off internal sound cards in the
> >> BIOS makes no difference to Linux whatsoever - Linux still finds the
> >> card and installs support for it.
> >>
> >> Perhaps it depends on which integrated sound chip is there?
> >
> > Some BIOSes used with certain VIA AC'97 controllers disable the on-board
> > device when another PCI sound card is found, even when the on-board
> > device is enabled in the setup.  For this reason, recent Linux kernels
> > forcibly enable the on-board device regardless of the BIOS settings.
>
> So how can I forcibly DISABLE the onboard device in Linux? I don't want
> the silly thing at all - it's presence interferes with using the PCI
> sound card.

Hi David. You could try the following line for the unwanted snd module, 
in /etc/modprobe.conf (fedora), or in /etc/modules.d/alsa-base (Kubuntu, 
Debian).

install snd-intel8x0 /bin/true

Change the snd module above for your unwanted one.

All the best.

Nigel.