Blacklisting snd_hda_intel [Solved]

[nematoad]

I have just reinstalled Mageia 8 as I have been having a lot of problems with my previous distro. Things seem to be going OK but I need a bit of advice.

I keep tripping over the HDMI driver.

I have a Sound Blaster Audigy card installed and would like to use the snd_emu10K1 driver instead of snd_hda_intel.

Now it used to be that I could edit /etc/modprobe.d/.blacklist to kill the snd_hda_intel driver and that would do the trick.

Can anyone point me to where I should add "blacklist snd_hda_intel" as having no sound is driving me up the wall.

Thanks.

[doktor5000]

Can you please post the output as regular user of the following commands ?

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lspcidrake -v
cat /proc/asound/cards
LC_ALL=C pacmd ls

Also the file where you blacklist it should end in .conf so append it to e.g.

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/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-mga.conf

or put it in

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/etc/modprobe.d/soundblaster.conf

[nematoad]

Thank you for your help.

I did as you requested and ran the commands. The result was, to my amazement, long, obscure and very hard to parse.

Reading the comments in the output I think that what you are asking for is to do with systemd.

I am not familiar with systemd, hence my surprise.

If that is what systemd is like then sadly Mageia is not for me.

I am a simple soul and my sysadmin days are long behind me. All I want is for my distro is to install and run without problems. I struggled with the likes of sys.ini and the registry enough when I was working and avoid all such interactions with the system as much as possible.

Thanks again for your help but it looks as if I will have to look somewhere else for a distro that coddles me and shields me from having to mess with the innards.

That's a shame as I have got used to the Mandrake way of doing things and I shall miss the simplicity of the Control Centre and the likes of diskdrake, menudrake and so on.

All the best and good luck with keeping the Mandrake spirit alive.

PS. I did edit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-mga.conf before posting this question and the system did not seem to pick it up and blacklist snd_hda_intel. As a last attempt before moving on I will try in /etc/modprobe.d/soundblaster.conf.

[morgano]

Hi nematoad

The outputs of the commands could help us help you.

I also suggest you try to boot Mageia 9 beta2 Live from a USB stick and see if it works out of the box.
https://www.mageia.org/sv/downloads/prerelease/
Mageia 9 is soon ready (lots of us are using it already)

[nematoad]

OK, since i am having no luck trying to block the HDMI here is the output of the command string:

[doktor5000]

By the way, that is not output from systemd, but from pulseaudio, which is the sound system. Although you're missing the output of the other two commands.

[nematoad]

OK.

Here is the output from the other two commands:

[nematoad]

Here is the output from inxi -A:

That HDMI from the Radeon card is what's blocking the sound.

[doktor5000]

What do you mean it's blocking the sound? Seems like you only need to change the default output to your Sound Blaster Audigy instead of the HDMI output (which is mostly the default nowadays to enable people to pass sound to their display).
You can either use the default mixer of your desktop environment if it exposes that setting or use pavucontrol - under the configuration tab you want to choose the correct profile for your Sound Blaster Audigy

Also according to the output snd_emu10k1 is already loaded for your Sound Blaster Audigy, and this is the only card available to pulseaudio.

[nematoad]

Thanks guys!

Every thing is up and running.

[doktor5000]

OK, but what did you change in particular ?

Also please don't forget to mark the thread as solved, by editing the subject of the first post and prefix it with [SOLVED], thanks in advance.

[nematoad]

I used pavucontrol to select the correct card and the sound came back.

I have marked this thread as solved.

Thanks again for the help.