a few questions about sound settings

[Kyle]

Sorry, didn't see your other question about the USB sound card.

Since you are probably not using pulseaudio, the best way I have found 
to force all sounds through a particular sound card is to blacklist the 
sound modules you don't want to use. First, find out what sound devices 
you have on your computer and what modules drive them.

lspci
lsmod |grep snd

Look for the driver modules you don't want and then

sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf

and add a line that looks something like

blacklist snd-<device>

where <device> is the card you don't want. On my system, I have an 
onboard nvidia sound chip that is driven by the intel8x0 module. I send 
all my sounds through my installed SoundBlaster Live by blacklisting 
snd-intel8x0. If you need further help, just send the output of your 
lsmod|grep snd command as well as the output of lspci off list and I can 
tell you more about what to blacklist in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf.

Kyle

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