[SOLVED] Sound Card Reset after every restart

[Yora0]

Every time I restart the computer, the Sound Card in "Sound and Video Configuration" at "Phonon" under "Audio Hardware Setup" is reset to "HD-Audio Generic".

Which does not work, so I select "SB Audigy" instead and sound works just fine. Until I restart the computer. Then every time I start, I get a pop up that the Sound Card was set to the next one available.

However, when I go into "Device Preference", then the "SB Audigy Analog Stereo" is only shown in gray for the Audio Recording devices, but is still in place for the Audio Playback devices.
Amarok still can not play any music until I set the card as the primary card for the entire system. VLC does, though. However VLC sound is really bad right now and still needs to be fixed at a later time.

My Mainboard does have an on-board sound card, but I prefer to use the Audigy.

Any ideas what can be done to stop the reset from happening?

[PabloTwo]

If your bios permits it, you could disable the on-board audio chipset in the bios. That way, the OS would only see the SB Audigy card, making it the primary card.

[Yora0]

It does say something about "higher priority" or "prefered device" in a pop up every time I start.
Maybe attempting to reverse this priority hierachy in Fedora would be enough. How would I do that?

I've just been looking at the Settings again, and now "HD-Audio Generic" is once again the selected Sound Card. But all the time Amorak has been playing without any complaints.

And since it came up in another thread I found about a similar issue, here my aplay -l results.

[martin@Lolth ~]$ aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 0: ALC887 Analog [ALC887 Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 1: ALC887 Digital [ALC887 Digital]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: Audigy [SB Audigy 1 [SB0092]], device 0: emu10k1 [ADC Capture/Standard PCM Playback]
  Subdevices: 32/32
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
  Subdevice #1: subdevice #1
  Subdevice #2: subdevice #2
  Subdevice #3: subdevice #3
  Subdevice #4: subdevice #4
  Subdevice #5: subdevice #5
  Subdevice #6: subdevice #6
  Subdevice #7: subdevice #7
  Subdevice #8: subdevice #8
  Subdevice #9: subdevice #9
  Subdevice #10: subdevice #10
  Subdevice #11: subdevice #11
  Subdevice #12: subdevice #12
  Subdevice #13: subdevice #13
  Subdevice #14: subdevice #14
  Subdevice #15: subdevice #15
  Subdevice #16: subdevice #16
  Subdevice #17: subdevice #17
  Subdevice #18: subdevice #18
  Subdevice #19: subdevice #19
  Subdevice #20: subdevice #20
  Subdevice #21: subdevice #21
  Subdevice #22: subdevice #22
  Subdevice #23: subdevice #23
  Subdevice #24: subdevice #24
  Subdevice #25: subdevice #25
  Subdevice #26: subdevice #26
  Subdevice #27: subdevice #27
  Subdevice #28: subdevice #28
  Subdevice #29: subdevice #29
  Subdevice #30: subdevice #30
  Subdevice #31: subdevice #31
card 1: Audigy [SB Audigy 1 [SB0092]], device 2: emu10k1 efx [Multichannel Capture/PT Playback]
  Subdevices: 8/8
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
  Subdevice #1: subdevice #1
  Subdevice #2: subdevice #2
  Subdevice #3: subdevice #3
  Subdevice #4: subdevice #4
  Subdevice #5: subdevice #5
  Subdevice #6: subdevice #6
  Subdevice #7: subdevice #7
card 1: Audigy [SB Audigy 1 [SB0092]], device 3: emu10k1 [Multichannel Playback]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 2: Generic [HD-Audio Generic], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

[Yora0]

I disabled the onboard sound and the issue disappeared.
Thanks, that helped.

[Yora0]

Sorry, still some troubles:

Now that the onboard sound is disabled in BIOS, sound appears to work in Fedora. However, when I look at the sound settings, it still changes to HD-Audio Generic and when I click on "Speaker Test", I don't hear anything. When I change to SB-Audigy, speaker test works just fine.

It appears to work now, but I rather have this solved now than to have to deal with it later when I notice that some programms also don't work as they should with HD-Audio Generic.