can't get my audigy sound card to work with ubuntu 8.04

will somebody please help, i am new to Linux

go to your terminal run this command:

asoundconf list

that will list your sound cards, then do this command to set it to the audigy

asoundconf set-default-card PARAM

instead of writing PARAM you put in the name of the card that you want to use that was listed in the previous command
then restart your system and you should be good

i ran the commands and they seem to have now set the default to my intel sound card, the exact opposite of what the command was, and now no sound at all, also the switches on the volume control are different now?

now i did reboot and now i get sound, however, in my "sound preferences" box it still reads audigy 1 (unknown) (alsa) mixer, is this how it sound read?

You may need to restart your computer to make sure that all services are now using the new mixer. Also you can disable your onboard intel sound chip in your BIOS so it won't be used again.

how do i disable in bios, what do i look for?

Look for options about your soundcard (AC97 sound support I suppose) and look for a disable option about it ...

thanks for your time, i have sound now!!