Hi. Have you managed to get the on board nforce sound card to be multi
channel? I have it working with alsa 1.04, but it seems stuck in
surround.
Thanks in advance.
Kenny
On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 03:53:34PM -0400, Whitley CTR Cecil H wrote:
> Sina,
> plug and play (commonly referred to as plug and pray) is supported. I've
> got several linux distributions (live cd's) which boot, auto-detect,
> auto-configure and just plain work on my pc's at home. These include from
> an amd k6 300, Celeron 366, amd Athlon xp 1700+, amd 2800+, and a p4 3.4
> northwood with s-ata csa pat and dual channel memory. The only thing I am
> missing from this mix is an amd-64 based system (got the p4 instead). I've
> got my boy where he will boot into knoppix to play the games, not to mention
> the gentoo game cd with unreal tournament 2003. Sound works, video works,
> various usb devices (including a joystick) works, short answer - it just
> works.
>
> Are there issues? Sure there are, but I also have issues with xp/2k/98se,
> in particular, I have to use different versions of the nvidia driver for 98
> and xp. NT 4 doesn't support my hp 2200 usb scanner, many many many
> examples. In short, one point never makes a good argument.
>
> As one other point, the article which started all this was about an Intel
> (supposedly) sound card (built-in). Intel is famous for their processors,
> but noone would rank them as the top sound card manufacturer, not even a
> popular one. Onboard sound is okay, but of the computers I have running, I
> use third party sound cards in 3/4 of them. Intel onboard graphics suck as
> well (and that's not limited to Intel, but there are exceptions). In fact,
> the exception at my house is the nforce 2 based motherboard. Nvidia did a
> decent job with their onboard graphics and sound.
>
> Regards,
>
> Cecil
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