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 -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>