On Saturday 21 March 2015 23:18:36 Gene Heskett wrote:
> Greetings all;
>
> I had to reboot after 19+ days of uptime yesterdat, dinking around
> with a new hard drive that wasn't quite new.
> Anyway, since then I have only had the new mail beep from mail as
> entertainment, all web video is silent movies, and even Kscd is muted
> as in the volume control is greyed out.
>
> This has all worked without a trace of pulse even being installed.
>
> Here is my SWAG on it.  This motherboard has 2 snd-hda-intel driven
> systems thru the MCP55 chipset on this M2N-SLI Deluxe asus board.
>
> My video card, is an eVga whose hdmi audio is not even bonded out, so
> while it signs in when an lcpci  -vv is exec'd, the only noise its
> ever made is from the GeForce4 8400 GS's cooling fan, which is
> typically a bearing rattling annoyance.  Its an eVga, what can I say,
> you buy aftermarket fans in 3 packs for them, and its on its 2nd of
> the 3 now.
>
> But I think somehow that the snd-hda-intel driver has linked itself to
> the no output stuff on this video card.
>
> Since the same snd-hda-intel driver runs both, how can I blacklist the
> worthless one?  Can I edit something in udev.d to cause the product
> number 1302 to be ignored?  That might be the ultimate hammer to drive
> tis nail it seems.
>
> Comments, audio guru's?

I know its step one, but I had to install alsamixer & gui.  No clue what 
did it but everything was turned completely off!  By a reboot? WTH?

> Cheers, Gene Heskett

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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