Sarang Lakare wrote:

> 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
>
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Praedor - the AC97 has always worked well, but with the alsa drivers & kernel
module. Sound quality is the same as under my Win98SE side. My problem's arising
from this sudden X-session start with all channels muted and the settings not
being retained between sessions. Also, for the past couple of days the settings
will again go to mute after an indeterminate amount of time & I'll have to
restart a mixer & readjust the volume levels. It's very strange. I've upgraded
(thru mandrake-update) my modutils & gimp (& related pkgs). I'm also running
Evolution. Could any of these have any bearing on sound? I still have the
vanilla Mdk7.1 kernel & X 3.3.6. Esound is 0.2.20-0mdk. Mostly run under Helix
Gnome, occasionally KDE (1.1.2). Alsa provides the kernel modules. Go to
www.alsa-project.org.
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