On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 14:37, Noah Roberts wrote; > This is bull. The type of motherboard on which the sound chipset > resides should not have an effect on the operation of the sound > chipset's driver. If there is such a dependency then the driver has > been poorly designed.
It probably shouldn't, but my experience shows that it does. The via82xx chipset seems to have completely difference performance - in terms of things like audio dropouts, record working, etc - on the 6 or so Athlon motherboards I have tried it on recently. Gigabyte, Asus, Tyan, it didn't seem to make much difference. Each motherboard had its own problems playing sound via the via82c_xxx OSS driver. With exactly the same kernel version, and FAI installed operating system. Sometimes it was dropouts, sometimes it wouldn't play at all, and I've had very little luck with recording on any of them. For one of them, only 2.4.19 worked, for another only an -ac kernel would give me sound reliably. The Tyans were good, they worked first time. I think the spanner in the works is that these audio chipsets have their revision levels, too. Personally I tend to avoid the cheaper Mobo vendors, and stick with quality vendors - Asus, Tyan, etc. With varying success :-(. -- Sam Vilain, [EMAIL PROTECTED] No man can prove upon awakening that he is the man who he thinks went to bed the night before, or that anything that he recollects is anything other than a convincing dream. -- Richard Buckminster Fuller ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
