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Re: Any recommendation for Linux friendly AMD motherboard?



Hi, Matan!

On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 11:29:59AM +0300, you wrote the following:

> > There's one caveat with Via Athlon chipsets: if you're going to use an
> > es1371-based sound card with it (such as the Sound Blaster 128),
> > you're going to have troubles. There's very little information
> > available about this problem that I have found -- there's a mention in
> > Alan Cox's diary entry for June 21st, and my own bitter experience.
> > I've been able to work around it by rearranging the PCI cards
> > (basically trying random arrangements until it stopped locking up).
> > It's not *so* terrible, and I believe it's going to be fixed at some
> > point. So I wouldn't dismiss this board just because of that.
> 
> I have a Gigabyte 7ZXR, and have no problem with the es1371 sound

Perhaps you've arranged your PCI cards in a working configuration to
begin with.

By the way, forgot to mention that my board is Asus A7V133.

> (other than the fact that the kernel driver does not support the
> codec, so I need to use the alsa driver).

Which codec does it not support? I'm using the standard kernel es1371
driver without any problems.


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