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Re: Any recommendation for Linux friendly AMD motherboard?
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- Subject: Re: Any recommendation for Linux friendly AMD motherboard?
- From: "Stiven Andre" <stiven_a(at-nospam)hotmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 01:41:06 +0300
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>From: Alex Shnitman <alexsh@hectic.net>
>To: linux-il@linux.org.il
>Subject: Re: Any recommendation for Linux friendly AMD motherboard?
>Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 12:27:39 +0300
>
>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.
>
I have the es1371 sound card onboard on my P3 it works fine in rh6.2.
I had no need to use another driver.
Regards.
S.A.
>
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