SB Audigy not detected

[david walcroft]

Robert Crowther wrote:
> I have just purchased an Audigy 2 soundcard (this one:
> http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/index.html?product_uid=82109).
>  I have an Asus A7V333 motherboard which has onboard sound, but there
> is no way to disable the onboard sound in the BIOS (all the
> information I could find indicated that the onboard sound would be
> turned off automatically if there was a soundcard plugged in, but this
> doesn't seem to be the case).
> 
> Gnome doesn't detect the soundcard at all, it doesn't appear in any of
> the system tools and, even after I manually added entries to
> modprobe.conf I am still stuck with only my onboard soundcard.  The
> snd_emu10k1 module is getting loaded, it appears when I lsmod, but no
> sound card device is created.
> 
> It does seem that the kernel knows the card is there, it just doesn't
> seem to know what it is:
> 
> #/sbin/lspci | grep Creative
> 00:0e.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs: Unknown device 0008
> 
  <<< snip >>>
> 
> Rob
> 

What is in your /etc/modprobe.conf

  david