[Hardy] Re: strange sound problem in Hardy

[Jim Smith]

Pierre Frenkiel wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Nov 2008, Jim Smith wrote:
>
>   
>> FWIW All of the instructions for building PCs that I have or have seen
>> mention going into the BIOS and disabling the on-board audio if you wish
>> to use a sound card.
>>     
>
>    Doing some googling, I  found both instructions (disable or not disable in BIOS)
>    - I don't see why one card should be disabled to use the other.
>      For example, you can have 2 ethernet cards. Why not 2 sound cards?
>    - actually, both cards worked perfectly during 6 months, and as I said,
>      both work perfectly 1 or 2 hours after reboot.
>    - anyway, I tried to disable the integrated card, but after that my machine
>      don't boot: stays indefinitely on "checking NVRAM" (apparently a BIOS BUG...)
>
> cheers,
>   
Actually all of those instructions assume that one is building a Windows
machine. That surely has something to do with it. I try to only build
Ubuntu machines. (The desktop I referenced is a dual booter cuz my wife
uses it.)

YMMV

Jim

YMMV

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