How to get Audigy sound card working if not already

[Member swarfendor437]

Hi, I installed Antix first time around and soundcard worked out of the box. I was having some issues with fsck check during boot so decided to do a reinstall but not before playing with DragonflyBSD but that is another story! Back on track.

What tends to happen is the system will pick up your HDMI connection as ‘HDA-Intel’.

Blacklisting a sound device

Type as a root or a sudo inside a terminal:

nano /proc/asound/modules

The command will open a text file with entries which might look like this:

` 0 snd_hda_intel

1 snd_ca106

2 snd_usb_audio`

What we have here is a list of available sound devices 0 snd_hda_intel being the default one. Also do note that if you have a webcam it will show up on this file (in the above example: 2 snd_usb_audio ). You do not need to worry about the webcam since it does not have speaker qualities which in turn makes sure that it plays nicely with other devices.

In the above example we see two sound devices ca106 and hda_intel. As we want to use ca106 as a default sound provider we will blacklist the hda_intel out of the way. In a terminal as a root or a sudo:

nano /etc/modprobe.d/sound.blacklist.conf

Add the following entry to the file and then save and close it:

blacklist snd_hda_intel

The above entry tells your system to ignore snd_hda_intel module and thus prevent the loading of the Intel sound card which in turn makes the ca106 the default device.

Note: you can by all means choose a different name for you blacklist file than sound.blacklist.conf as long as it is formatted as something.blacklist.conf . When you remove the blacklist file or erase entries from it the system will return to its previous state. Remember to always reboot your computer after the blacklisting or erasing something from the blacklists in order to see the actual results.

[Acknowledgements: https://www.techtimejourney.net/how-to-blacklist-a-sound-card-in-linux/#more-833%5D

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