Thanks Jeff, I just took a few stabs at getting at the BIOS config (I'm not very experienced with that kind of thing). This machine used to be corporate and I suspect custom stuff in the BIOS. For example, it wants a boot password.
When the machine gets to the point where you would normally see something like "press this to boot, press that for setup", all it offers is F1 one for boot and F11 for a (corporate) network boot. I've tried the other function keys but no avail. Are there any standard key combinations for this kind of thing? Or is there a GNU/Linux way of getting at the bios? The whole approach makes little sense to me, since, without the card, I always got warning messages from KDE about how there is no sound hardware, which went away as soon as the SB card was there, so I would have supposed if the card is detected and indeed used, it's sound jacks would be active. After all, outputting signal on the card's output jacks (which are physically part of the card) seems to me enterly up to the card itself. If the mainboard's jacks also output signal, why should that conflict? I can understand that the BIOS can deactivate the card, but judging from lsmod, this doesn't seem to be the case. I would suppose that "use the card but not the jacks" could be the kind of message that can be transmitted via /etc/modules.conf and the driver modules, but how could the BIOS transmit such a message to the card? Lukas --- Jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Lukas Latz, 2003-Jan-03 04:36 -0800: > > hi all! > > > > i'm running Debian Woody (testing) on an old Compaq Deskpro. the > > machine has audio in and out jacks, but didn't seem to have usable > > audio capabilities, so i bought a soundblaster card. > > > the problem is: although the emu10k chip on the card does seem to > get > > used by audio applications, i can only actually get sound from the > (bad > > quality) mainboard's audio jack, but not from the soundblaster > card's > > jacks. > > You should check the bios and see if you can disable the onboard > sound > capability. It could be butting heads with the SB card and causing > the problem. > > jc > > -- > Jeff Coppock Systems Engineer > Diggin' Debian Admin and User > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
