How to disable audio warning?

arcull · January 26, 2009, 3:48pm

Hi. I have replaced my old soundcard with a new one and since it works ok, I gues I have configured it correctly. Also the onboard card works ok. The only problem is that at every logon to kde I get an annoying warning message saying that my old sound card doesn’t work, and will therefore my new sond card be used (which is set as default one). Obiously the system thinks the old card is still present. How can I correctly fix that. My /etc/modprobe.d/sound now looks like this

linux-e685:~ # cat /etc/modprobe.d/sound

options snd slots=snd-ens1371,snd-hda-intel
# CvwD.KPO0__zQNI7:MCP61 High Definition Audio
alias snd-card-1 snd-hda-intel
# 2_DJ.FGsk7T8RAT9:Creative Sound Blaster AudioPCI64V, AudioPCI128
alias snd-card-0 snd-ens1371

The first sound card marked as MCP61 is an onboard one and has not been changed. The second one marked as ens1371 is my new one. Lspci show the following result

linux-e685:~ # lspci |grep Audio
00:05.0 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP61 High Definition Audio (rev a2)
01:07.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq ES1371 [AudioPCI-97] (rev 02)

I’m on suse 11.1 with kde 4.1 Thanks for your help in advance.

arcull · January 26, 2009, 4:01pm

I’m sorry for adding as a reply, but I forgot to mention the exact error warning, which goes like this: “The audio playback device C-Media CMI8738 (model 55) (C-Media PCI DAC/ADC) does not work. Falling back to Ensoniq AudioPCI ENS1371 (ES1371 DAC2/ADC)”

brunomcl · January 27, 2009, 2:51am

Disabling it in BIOS doesn’t work?

If it is still detected (happened to me once), try deleting it’s configuration in Yast>Hardware>Sound. It will still show, but as not configured.

arcull · January 27, 2009, 9:10am

Thanks brunomcl, but I gues I can not dissable it in BIOS since the sound card is not physicaly present anymore, and also in yast->sound, it is not listed anymore. It must have left some record of it somewhere else but I don’t know where. Any other ideas maybe?

arcull · January 28, 2009, 7:32am

Hm, does anyone know how to at least how to remove this warning. Where should I do a grep query, to get the piece of code producing it. Thanks again.

brunomcl · January 28, 2009, 11:27am

One thing that occurs me, since yast doesn’t see it (which is correct, as the card is not there anymore), is to check the audio settings in kde control center. Maybe it’s referenced there somewhere, or there is some issue with arts.

You could also try creating a new user, which will have a new, default kde configuration, and see if this happens when you log to it. If it doesn’t it is a KDE thing, you may then check your user’s config files in ~/.kde.

Or how about boot the installation DVD, choose repair and redetect the hardware? There are some guides about this at the forum and at opensuse’s site.

arcull · January 28, 2009, 3:02pm

brunomcl thanks, I’ll try it and report back

MyHyde · January 29, 2009, 8:23am

I also would like to know how to get rid of the warning. My tablet has been showing that since the DVD version of suse 11.1 with KDE. I have not done anything with the installed Intel card.And I still get the warning in the upper right hand corner upon start up.
Thanks,
Jeff

arcull · January 30, 2009, 5:42pm

I’ve solved the problem. I backed up the stuff I had in my home folder and then deleted the user and it’s home folder via yast. When I created the new user, I didn’t get the warning message anymore. Thanks for helping me with this.