The board is an Asus M2N-E, it has 7.1 channel onboard audio. The
motherboard manual says it is C-Media. It definitely works - well the
usual green socket for sound and the microphone are fine. Sound quality
isn't that bad either, certainly a noticeable step up from the previous
board I had with AC97.
I have not yet had a chance to see if I can get some of the other sound
channels to go, they do not "out of the box" with a default kubuntu
install and unfortunately have not had a chance to see if it can be done.
Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
On Sat 07 Jul 2007 18:04:02 NZST +1200, Roger Searle wrote:
this motherboard is onboard everything except graphics, but i'm failing
to spot what the sound is... i'm guessing it is SMBus by elimination.
No, that's just what it says - an SMBus interface/controller. An nforce4
chipset sound looks like this:
00:04.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 AC'97 Audio
Controller (rev a2)
AC97 fake/compatible is very common. By process of elimination, the only
unknown thing left is:
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron]
Miscellaneous Control
But I doubt it. There's no audio hardware there. If you're certain the
mobo has any, check it's not by chance disabled in the bios. If still no
luck, buy a sound card (and let us know the mobo details).
Volker
