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 -- Nick Koretsky (nick.koretsky@...)