"Thomas J. Hamman" wrote: > I'm going to be upgrading my computer soon, most likely with a > motherboard with a KX133 (with an Athlon) or a KT133 (with a Duron or > Thunderbird) chipset. > > Does anyone have any experience with those chipsets/CPUs in Debian? Are > there any problems with them? > > And, specifically, since all the motherboards I'm finding have only one > ISA slot, and I have two ISA cards (an SB AWE64 soundcard and a very > reliable internal 56k modem), I'm curious about the on-board "AC-97 > audio" and "MC-97 modem". Does anyone know if they work in Linux? If > they do work, are they reliable? Or are they flaky enough that I would > be better off grabbing an Ensoniq for sound or an external modem? > > (I hate having to ask this here, but I can't find them on any hardware > compatibility lists.) >
I've an Asus KX133, the on-board audio (VIA VT82C686) works quite well with ALSA (version 0.59d), if you really want OSS, the current stable kernel (2.2.17) has only support for 8 bit SB emulation, but there is a new driver in the next 2.2.18 kernel version with full 16 bit support. On a side note ALSA has a good OSS emulation mode... Andrea
