Problems booting Edgy

[Jan and Bertil Smark Nilsson]

Greetings,

When I boot my latest Version of Edgy, press F5 and then 3, I hear 
nothing. This could be due to the fact that I've two sound cards in my HP 
Pavillion, the original Riptide, which used not to work in Linux 2.6 at 
all, and an SB Live, which I added for that particular reason. The Riptide 
still doesn't work even though it's supposed to and gives every indication 
of doing so. However, that seems to be the preferred sound card by the 
loader. When I run a player and choose the SB Live as sound device, it 
works well.

However, something is wrong. Orca hasn't loaded and When I run dmesg, I 
get a number of lines saying hdc command error. I've no problems booting 
Knoppix or GRML.

Anybody any ideas?

Regards,

Bertil Smark Nilsson