I am pretty picky about sound, so even under Windows I was not happy with the onboard audio. I have a couple of these: http://www.memoryexpress.com/Products/MX31016
They work out of the box with most of the Linux distros I have tried. For Windows you still have to install the driver. On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 10:27 AM, Greg King <wgk...@shaw.ca> wrote: > "Linux dominates supercomputers as never before" See article: > > http://www.zdnet.com/linux-dominates-supercomputers-as-never-before-7000030890/?s_cid=e539&ttag=e539&ftag=TRE17cfd61 > > Too bad it can't do the same on the desktop. For example, I just bought a > new system with a Gigabyte motherboard and I7 processor. I put Mint 17 on > it and 95% of things just work, except for the sound - full of static and > choppy. I've spent a few hours already downloading new drivers from Realtek > and compiling them (not exactly a "consumer friendly" activity) and it > still does not work correctly. Apparently it is a known bug with Realtek > ALC892 audio but none of the solutions I have found from googling around > has fixed it yet. Not much has changed in the past 7 years since I similar > problems with sound on a new machine back then too. Of course the DVD that > came with the motherboard is loaded with Windows drivers. It's encouraging > that Realtek at least published Linux drivers - too bad they were never > debugged, or the docs on how to get them to work are incomplete. > > If anyone else has solved this issue I'd love to hear the solution. > > Greg > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > clug-talk@clug.ca > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying >
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