On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 09:56:31PM +0100, Andrea Vettorello wrote: > "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... Maybe the Gigabyte GA-7ZX(R) (R means RAID support) mainboard an option for you, kt133 chipset, so duron/tb compatible. the integrated ct5880 chipset should work ok with both the oss and alsa ens1371 driver. it's probably a better card then the 'via vt82c686' chipset, according tomshardare.com's socket a mb test (http://www.tomshardware.com/mainboard/00q3/000919/kt133-16.html)
maybe this mb is an optin for you, look for more info at http://www.giga-byte.com/products/pro_new2.htm
