On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, Levi Ramsey wrote: > On Tue Feb 04 19:51 -0500, Gregory K. Meyer wrote: > > > > I am seeing posts on A.O.L.M, bug reports (including mine - 115) and some posts on >various other web forums related to the onboard network, sound and usb of many newer >motherboards not working. I have asked people in these cases to try booting with >noapic and/or acpi=off and in most cases it allowed those periphs to work. See bug >115 for a detailed report I filed on the issue on a Soyo KT400 board. When I could >identify the hardware, it seems these reports came from VIA chipsets for both Athlon >and Intel platforms, but I cannot confirm that universally. [snip] > will be...). The onboard sound, however, apart from the annoying > buzzing that has a history of plaguing VIA sound chips, works perfectly. You can get rid of it by putting the option PciRestart in XF86Config-4. At least it works for me. No more hissing, echo's, buzzing, ...
Guy P.S.: I have a A7V133 (KT133A) motherboard in the computer at home. I am not completely sure of the option name, I have to look it up at home (so not for today unless someone helps me out). I also have to look up in what section exactly you have to put the option.
