Pustulo
November 1st, 2004, 07:33 PM
I thought that I would share a solution to a problem that plagued me for a few nights during my ongoing migration to Ubuntu.
:confused: The problem:
The integrated soundcard on the motherboard does not appear to work under Gnome.
:neutral: Observations:
'dmesg' reveals the built-in soundcard is actually detected at one point in the boot process
The volume control applet shows multiple soundcards, the first of which only has one channel - a microphone. The second, appears to be the real card.
Despite gdm startup sound, the gnome session does not use the real soundcard.
:idea: Hypothesis:
Hotplug system is configuring the webcam's sound capabilities before the motherboard's integrated soundcard. The order of detection dictates which sound device the gnome session uses as it's sound output device.
:D Solution:
# /etc/modules: kernel modules to load at boot time.
#
# This file should contain the names of kernel modules that are
# to be loaded at boot time, one per line. Comments begin with
# a "#", and everything on the line after them are ignored.
Append the name of the integrated soundcard's driver to the /etc/modules file.
e.g. # echo snd_intel8x0 >> /etc/modules
Hope this helps.
N.B. This is not a problem specific to Ubuntu. In fact, I encountered the same problem under RH9 (which I am migrating from). My solution for that installation was to use the hotplug blacklist, although I find that answer awfully kludgy.
Colin.
:confused: The problem:
The integrated soundcard on the motherboard does not appear to work under Gnome.
:neutral: Observations:
'dmesg' reveals the built-in soundcard is actually detected at one point in the boot process
The volume control applet shows multiple soundcards, the first of which only has one channel - a microphone. The second, appears to be the real card.
Despite gdm startup sound, the gnome session does not use the real soundcard.
:idea: Hypothesis:
Hotplug system is configuring the webcam's sound capabilities before the motherboard's integrated soundcard. The order of detection dictates which sound device the gnome session uses as it's sound output device.
:D Solution:
# /etc/modules: kernel modules to load at boot time.
#
# This file should contain the names of kernel modules that are
# to be loaded at boot time, one per line. Comments begin with
# a "#", and everything on the line after them are ignored.
Append the name of the integrated soundcard's driver to the /etc/modules file.
e.g. # echo snd_intel8x0 >> /etc/modules
Hope this helps.
N.B. This is not a problem specific to Ubuntu. In fact, I encountered the same problem under RH9 (which I am migrating from). My solution for that installation was to use the hotplug blacklist, although I find that answer awfully kludgy.
Colin.