[CentOS] How can I disable sound?

Tue Feb 14 14:31:22 UTC 2006
Kai Schaetzl <maillists at conactive.com>

Will McDonald wrote on Tue, 14 Feb 2006 00:30:12 +0000:

> You could try hacking around in /etc/sysconfig/hwconf ? Obviously make 
> a backup copy first. :) 

Ah, thanks. That shows "nforce AC'97 sound controller" or so using a 
driver intel-8x0m. Onboard video and LAN work fine, but not sound. I 
suppose if I want to stop it freezing I've to go to Nvidia and look for a 
sound driver. 

> # grep -r snd /etc/* 

mostly in the alsa directory. I think I would need to stop modprobe from 
detecting the soundcard. That's not much different from disabling the 
soundcard, see next.

> Is sndconfig enabled in the various /etc/rc.N directories? 

no sndconfig or snd-config, but snd mentioned in rc.sysinit and alsa in 
the stop and reboot scripts (that's where the "saving mixer settings" is 
coming from). I didn't really want to comment out stuff in the rc files, 
so I have switched off onboard sound in the BIOS. Freezing has stopped.

>  
> # chkconfig --list | grep -i snd 
>  
> Have you also tried setting the runlevel to 3 and running startx 
> manually to see if the problem still occurs there?

Seems so, it stops after "starting anacron OK" (when switching to runlevel 
3). Don't know what next option is, but i have given up on that, see 
above.

Thanks for the hints, anyway!

Kai

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