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How do I automatically pick the right sound card?

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Sorry about the technical question -- I'll get back to the politics shortly!

My machine has an on board sound card (a SIS 7012), but I also have a soundblaster that I prefer to use. However, whenever I reboot the system automatically configures itself to use the SIS. I have to run alsaconf every boot to get sound out of the s/blaster.

Any idea how I can change this behaviour?

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several options -

Submitted by pinniped on Tue, 2006-10-10 00:00.

1. delete the drivers for the SIS chip
2. you can try to disable onboard sound via BIOS - this will work as long as your kernel hasn't been set up to probe all hardware and reactivate regardless of BIOS settings
3. find out what your hardware discovery tool is and set up the configuration file so that it never loads the SIS stuff.

If your hardware detection tool is working properly it should have set you up with two sound devices, and depending what sound manager you use you may be able to select the SB device regardless of the SIS device's status.

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First-card-driver-module-name in /etc/modules

Submitted by MagnusBerg on Tue, 2006-10-10 10:28.

I have put my first-card-driver-module-name in /etc/modules to make it be number one.

pinniped wrote: "3. find out what your hardware discovery tool is and set up the configuration file so that it never loads the SIS stuff."
Can you tell us a good place there we can learn about whose techniques? I don't now which one is the master of them on my system - Udev, Discover or if there are more than those.
I still can't use my radio on my TV/radio-card then using Etch (it works perfect whith Sarge) and I have asked about it before and now and then I do some intensive googeling to find a solution without luck and that problem goes far over my head but learning the hardware discovery tools should be a little step one the way I hope.

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