On Sat, 21 Mar 2015 23:18:36 -0400
Gene Heskett <gheskett@...> 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?
> 

Post output of "aplay -l" and "aplay -L" and context of /etc/asound.conf

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