Ubuntu
alsa-driver package

  1. Bug #10882
  2. Comment #6

Comment 6 for bug 10882

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Daniel T Chen (crimsun) wrote :

(In reply to comment #5)
> A friend had the exact same problem with his genuine sound blaster 16 ISA card
> on his machine in Ubuntu Linux 5.04 ("Hoary Hedgehog" edition). Even though
> /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base has a line with "modprobe snd-sb16" in it, for some
> reason that fails to activate sound on his system during the boot process, but
> typing exactly that in a root terminal after his system is loaded into the GUI
> gets sound working.

Your friend could do the following: echo "snd-sb16" | sudo tee -a /etc/modules