You uninstall the driver, or possibly blacklist it.
To do that you have to know what sound you have
Post the output of
lspci | grep sound
or
lspci | grep audio
or if that does not give you anything the output of lspci
Then we can help you.
You may find what you found above in Synaptic - if so uninstall it....
However this is built into the kernel in most cases, just as it is built into the motherboard and blacklisting my be needed
How to uninstall intel sound card
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Re: How to uninstall intel sound card
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Re: How to uninstall intel sound card
A really hard question to answer, because you have to know the exact name.How can I go about blacklisting a module?
When/if you know that it's simple, you add it to
/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
This is an example of how you do it
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# causes no end of confusion by creating unexpected network interfaces
blacklist eth1394
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Now I saw you have a "ugly" modem. If you turn that off you turn off sound. This is true for this kind of modem/sound and there is usually some kind of switch for that.
And if you don't use the modem it's better turn it off
Re: How to uninstall intel sound card
I think most laptops has a small switch somewhere to turn off the modem
The item to blacklist may be snd-ac97-codec, but that may be to "general" an option
The item to blacklist may be snd-ac97-codec, but that may be to "general" an option