I had a similar motherboard and hte sound worked perfectly on LM 7.1 out of the box! I don't know of sound quality compared to others coz I use it mainly for playing CDs to my head-phones.. but ac97 did work out of the box on VIA chipset in LM 7.1 is the bottom line :) -sarang On Friday 01 December 2000 20:49, you wrote: > > On Friday 01 December 2000 05:51 pm, you wrote: > [...] > > > My system's a 900mhz thunderbird with the via ac97 (snd-card-via686a > > kernel module). Any clues on this would be appreciated. I've done a good > > bit of google-ing & deja-ing, looked at the alsa archives, but haven't > > run across a similar situation yet. > > Can't help with with the resetting of the alsa settings... > > You say your alsa config file(s) do not change/are not changed upon reboot? > If they are, you could try setting the config file attribute to immutable > so nothing will change it, period. > > My more immediate interest is in your ac97. I have an Athlon 700 on an > AK72 AOpen board, VIA chipset, and the ac97. I haven't even tried to get > the onboard sound to work, going instead with my AudioPCI. However, if the > ac97 does a good job, there is an attractiveness to opening up a PCI slot > and using the onboard sound. > > When the alsa settings are proper, does the ac97 do a good job? Nice > sound? Work with games? Does windoze handle it OK? I am wondering about > the quality of the onboard sound, overall. > > Finally, where did the snd-card-via686a kernel module come from? > > Thanks for any information, > > praedor ---------------------------------------- Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; name="message.footer" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: ---------------------------------------- -- ------------------------------ Sarang Lakare
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