Sound chips fighting against each other!

[lagagnon]

Using VL SOHO 5.9. I have a motherboard with an onboard Via AC97 sound chip, which I have TURNED OFF in BIOS and also have a better Audigy 2 sound card (which is the one I prefer to use). Despite having turned off the onboard audio chip in BIOS, VectorLinux is still detecting it.

So what happens, is that on a seemingly random basis the system sometimes decides to use the Via chip and at other times the Audigy chip! Weird! I can tell which one by opening alsamixer. This is frustrating to say the least. Despite using vasm and telling it to use the AUdugy chip it seems to make no difference either.

Does anyone know of a way to force alsa and the system to use the Audigy chip?

Here is relevent lspci output:

Code:

00:0d.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy (rev 04)
00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 60)

And relevant lsmod output:

Code:

snd_seq_midi            7296  0
snd_emu10k1_synth       7040  0
snd_emux_synth         33664  1 snd_emu10k1_synth
snd_seq_virmidi         6400  1 snd_emux_synth
snd_seq_midi_emul       6912  1 snd_emux_synth
snd_seq_dummy           3716  0
snd_seq_oss            32000  0
snd_seq_midi_event      7168  3 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_oss
snd_seq                48624  9 snd_seq_midi,snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_midi_emul,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_pcm_oss            38144  0
snd_mixer_oss          15360  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_via82xx            23704  0
snd_emu10k1           137632  2 snd_emu10k1_synth
snd_mpu401_uart         7808  1 snd_via82xx
snd_ac97_codec         98084  2 snd_via82xx,snd_emu10k1
ac97_bus                2944  1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm                67844  4 snd_pcm_oss,snd_via82xx,snd_emu10k1,snd_ac97_codec
snd_rawmidi            20352  4 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_emu10k1,snd_mpu401_uart
snd_seq_device          7692  8 snd_seq_midi,snd_emu10k1_synth,snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi
snd_timer              20356  3 snd_seq,snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc          8712  3 snd_via82xx,snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm
snd_util_mem            4480  2 snd_emux_synth,snd_emu10k1
snd_hwdep               7812  2 snd_emux_synth,snd_emu10k1
snd                    46628  18 snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_via82xx,snd_emu10k1,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device,snd_timer,snd_hwdep
soundcore               7008  1 snd
gameport               12296  3 snd_via82xx,emu10k1_gp

[rbistolfi]

This howto by The Headacher has the solution:

http://forum.vectorlinux.com/index.php?topic=4888.msg32619#msg32619

[lagagnon]

Thank you. I feel like a real prat now as a simple search would have saved me a lot of typing. Being a  forum moderator makes it even worse! Doh. 

[rbistolfi]

Hahaha I thought about that while writing, "I hope Larry will not take this link pointer as an offense", but then I remembered the search function doesnt work right after the forum move

[wcs]

Same with me with a webcam mic.
It works fine after doing the headacher fix, but it seems very random.

If I just leave vector be, it will sometimes get me one or the other as the default.