ALSA emu10k1 troubles

[dan@george]

So, I've got ALSA support (with emu10k1) included in my running kernel. And indeed, alsaconf recognizes my SoundBlaster Audigy card as being supported by emu10k1. So when I run alsaconf, I am presented with this menu:

------- Soundcard Selection -------
Following card(s) are found on your system.
Choose a soundcard to configure:
-----------------------------------------------------------------
emu10k1   Creative Labs SB Audigy (rev 04)
legacy    Probe legacy ISA (non-PnP) chips

Of course, I choose the first option, and the configurator finishes without complaint, even recommending that I have lots of fun. However, sound still only comes out of my onboard (NVidia CK8S) soundcard, whose sound quality is non-negligibly crappy. Alsamixer also reports that the soundcard being used is my onboard card. Any ideas?

Possibly useful output:

# lsmod | grep snd
snd_emu10k1            89960  -
snd_util_mem            3080  -
snd_hwdep               6628  -

[Vergil83]

I don't think this is the exact solution you want, but can you turn off the onboard sound in the bios?

[dan@george]

Yes, but that's not the problem -- I want to make sound come out of my SoundBlaster card, and no sound is coming out of it.

[dylunio]

Yes, but that's not the problem -- I want to make sound come out of my SoundBlaster card, and no sound is coming out of it.

we understand that, it just could be your onboard sound messing up the sound system and thus nothing comes out of the card, so disabling the onboard sound in the BIOS is worth a shot.

dylunio

[dan@george]

Oh, okay. Yeah, disabling the onboard soundcard in the BIOS worked. I'm sorry for ever doubting you.

Thanks a lot!