[Eug-lug] kubuntu sound

[Alan Crandall]

On Saturday 17 November 2007 11:10:45 pm Neil Parker wrote:
> I'm not familiar with "lshw" (Slackware 11 doesn't have it), but this
> output looks like you have TWO sound devices in your machine--an onboard
> sound chip and the SB Live card.  This suggests that the problem may have
> something to do with which card is the default.
>
assume it stands for list hardware

> If you can get sound to play through the motherboard connector but not the
> SB connector, then that's probably what's going on.  On my machine (which
> has a motherboard sound chip and a SB Audigy in a slot), I forced it to
> recognize my Audigy as the default sound card by creating a file called
> "alsa" in the directory /etc/modprobe.d, with the following contents:
>

I did have that dir so created/copy to there

> A reboot will force this change to be recognized, but you should also be
> able to do it by typing "rmmod snd_emu10k1" and "rmmod snd_intel8x0".
>

tried that command and got this : alanwall at alanwall-desktop:~$ sudo rmmod 
snd_emu10k1
ERROR: Module snd_emu10k1 is in use by snd_emu10k1_synth
so assume it thinks I am using a synthesizer ? or because I created the 
alsa file ?

> If that doesn't help, the next thing to look at is your mixer settings.

was the second place I tried and it is set to creative/alsa
will reboot and see if that alsa file did the trick
THANKS !