Using a PCI sound card on Laptop

[yyarin]

Hi I'm pretty damn new to Linux. Although I have been poking around the hardware configurations, but I haven't been successful in figuring out this problem.

I have an acer laptop on which I installed SUSE 10.1. I also have a Creative Labs SB Audigy 2 ZS PCI sound card. Although it recognizes the card and it is possible to play noise with the card when I enter the hardware configuration, all the sound goes towards the built-in card. I want the sound to go through the Audigy card so that it goes to external speakers.

I can't figure out how to make it the main card. Please help.
Thank you so much.

[devils casper]

disable built-in sound card in BIOS.






casper

[yyarin]

Hi, that sounded like an excellent option, so I went and tried it out. However, when I was in BIOS I saw no opportunity to enable/disable my sound card. I don't think it was hidden, I think the options really are limited (I have some experience with BIOS). What used to happen in Windows was that the sound was automatically diverted to the "new" sound card as I would enter it. Windows would treat it like an external device, which was rather convenient since I could take it out without having the computer freeze up. I wonder if there are any similar updates that makes PCI cards recognized as such. The least I would like though is to make the Audigy card recognized as the prioritized card.