OT: weird sound and network problem

[jacob schmude]

Hi
The reason I'd need to remove the audigy2 in order to use my onboard
sound is that this particular motherboard disables the onboard sound
when it detects another sound card in the system. I've done a thorough
search of the Gentoo forums and haven't found anything, I'm waiting
for the forum admin to get back to me with my username created so that
I can ask it, since I can't create the user myself as they use one of
those image verification systems. I doubt, however, that this problem
is Gentoo-specific.

On 5/27/05, Kenny Hitt <kenny at hittsjunk.net> wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> I can't really help much, but I have some questions.
> Have you asked about your problem on the Gentoo lists?
> 
> Why will you need to remove your sound card to use the on board card?
> 
>          Kenny
> 
> 
> On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 01:13:09PM -0700, jacob schmude wrote:
> > Hi all
> > I recently installed Gentoo linux on my AMD Athlon64 system.
> > Everything, except for the sound and network, seems to work fine.
> > However, the sound and network are having a problem that I've never
> > seen before and have had no luck at all researching. The sound card is
> > an SB Audigy2 ZS Platinum PRO, the ethernet card is an onboard nVidia
> > NForce3 250GB controller. The problem is this: if I'm using the
> > soundcard for any extended length of time, both sound and network will
> > lock up without warning and with absolutely no messages in the logs
> > indicating a failure. The sound will repeat the last few seconds it
> > was playing before the lock up in a repeated loop, while the network
> > will not work at all--though there's no indication of failure in the
> > output of ifconfig eth0 or dmesg. Bringing eth0 down then back up
> > again, oddly enough, will correct both issues for a little while, but
> > it will happen again. Usually I can't use the sound for any longer
> > than ten minutes before this happens. I'm using the ALSA emu10k1
> > driver for the audigy, and I've tried both the free, kernel-provided
> > driver and NVidia's proprietary driver for my network card. The
> > results are the same with both network drivers, and I can't really try
> > another audio driver since snd-emu10k1 is the only one that supports
> > my card and I can't try my onboard sound without completely removing
> > the audigy2--which I really don't want to do, since it was a pain
> > getting everything hooked up to it. Has anyone ever seen this problem
> > or anything similar? If so, is there a way to fix it?
> >
> > thx
> >
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