The onboard sound is the VIA 686a audio - which is also supported under more recent kernels. The ALSA drivers also support this audio chip (at least version 0.5.8 does. Tom Veldhouse veldy at veldy.net On Fri, 30 Jun 2000, Michael Vieths wrote: > It has a KX133 chipset, which has the Via 686a southbridge. It works fine > on my FIC SD11 motherboard in Linux. I'm not so sure about the onboard > sound, though. > > Michael Vieths > Foeclan at Winternet.Com > > On Fri, 30 Jun 2000, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: > > > More than likely it has a VIA 686A chipset or the AMD 756 chipset - eithe > > r of which are supported by the UDMA patch that you can get from > > kernel.org. The BIOS is another matter - if it doesn't report things > > nicely - you may have to use hdparm to force the use of DMA. > > > > Tom Veldhouse > > veldy at veldy.net > > > > On Fri, 30 Jun 2000, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > > > > > people on the list have said good things about Tyan mobos, and > > > I see that they have a K7 board now. > > > http://www.tyan.com/products/html/trinityk7.html > > > > > > how well-supported are the IDE controller and sound chipset under > > > Linux? I see that it comes with a 'driver disk'; which immediately > > > makes me suspicious (since they probably aren't anything but Windows > > > drivers...) > > > > > > I'm not necessarily going to run Linux on one of these things (I'm > > > actually looking for a win98 setup here at work); but I'd like to look > > > at the possibility down the road. > > > > > > Carl Soderstrom > > > _________________________________________ > > > Systems Administrator 307 Brighton Ave. > > > Minnesota DHIA Buffalo, MN > > > carls at agritech.com (763) 682-1091 > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org > > > For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org > For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org