2 sound cards?

-=GGW=- $ol!d $n4>|e · Veteran Joined: 12 Apr 2004 Posts: 1616 Location: USA

ok, I have an integrated VT8235 wich is a pos and everyone is having crap problems with it and alsa. so I put in my hella old creative sound labs card. the problem is, I dont know how to tell gentoo that I want it to use the creative labs and not the internel via82xx thingy. any one got ideas? do you know where I should modprobe, what sound card it would be 0, 1, 2? stuff like that.

Rainmaker · Posted: Sun May 16, 2004 11:57 pm Post subject:

are you using ALSA?

take a look in /etc/conf.d/alsa
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-=GGW=- $ol!d $n4>|e · Veteran Joined: 12 Apr 2004 Posts: 1616 Location: USA

ya, when I install gentoo I didnt have this soundcard in, and I set up alsa for via82xx but it was screwin up so I reinstalled gentoo twice tried all sorts of diff things and it STILL screwed up so, I just installed my old creative labs sound card and I just wanna know how to get alsa to know that its there and use it, I know its in my 3rd pci slot..

John5788 · Posted: Mon May 17, 2004 12:26 am Post subject:

u can disable ur onboard sound. i have the same sound chipset and its working 100% for me. what problems are you having
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-=GGW=- $ol!d $n4>|e · Veteran Joined: 12 Apr 2004 Posts: 1616 Location: USA

quake 3 sound wasnt givin me anyting, some games stuff like that and I neede to do noapci and apci=off to get it to not freeze when tryin to play a sound, lmao

thechris · Veteran Joined: 12 Oct 2003 Posts: 1203

there is a possibility that both sound cards are sharing the same IRQ. i'd take the advice earlier and go into the bios and disable the ac97 sound in the integrated periphreials section.

-=GGW=- $ol!d $n4>|e · Veteran Joined: 12 Apr 2004 Posts: 1616 Location: USA

thanks, ya It worked when I disabled in bios... it worked partially... I've got a strain goin up under the media forum, all the alsa guides bien written for ppl with 2.4.24 kernels and my havin a 2.6 kernel is really screwin me up tho, they all say to emerge seperate things and some say to add alsa sound to boot, some say not to, so confusing, someone should write a good guide to this, or can someone point out one that worked for thier creative labs sound card 1371? I dont think that ALSA is running because some things dont put out sound but then again my kde gives me sound along with other kde programs and tux racer gave me delayed sound... then again the kde thingy doesnt have alsa as an option but its under autodetect, man this sh!t is wierd, lmao :lol: