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Andras Mantia <amantia@kde.org> writes: > Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: > >> Just for the records, it happens actually quite often that some little >> features / improvements of a chipset have bugs; from time to time, >> you'll see a BIOS update that doesn't really do more than switching >> off that feature. I guess that quite some of our quirks originate from >> looking at what a newer BIOS configures differently compared to an >> older version. Some instability can be fixed that way (though it's >> better to have a fix for such a bug inside the BIOS: this way, the fix >> is in place at the time the Linux kernel is loaded, so there's no way >> for it to eg. cause memory corruption between loading the kernel and >> issueing the quirks.) > I know, but in this case I got this answer: > " Dear Friend : > Thank you for contacting ASUS Customer Service. > My name is ZYC, and I would be assisting you today. > sorry ,due to chipset limitation , > when you add a PCI AUDIO card to a board which use VIA VT8237 southbridge > controller , > the built in AC97 audio will be disabled automaticly . > it is a chip limitation without way to fix ." What a liar. > Meantime I tried the patch against the 2.6.13-15 kernel shipped with SuSE 10 > (applied without errors), and altough I see > PCI: enabled onboard AC97/MC97 devices > > in the logs, the onboard card doesn't appear in lspci. > > I'm downloading the 2.6.16-rc6 kernel to try with that one. Mine is an > A8V-Deluxe, so I don't know why it didn't work. :-( I have the latest Asus > bios and verified that it is enabled in the BIOS (I know, it doesn't really > matter, but I mention here). The patch works on my Asus P4V8X-X board. There is one problem though. With a CMI8738 based PCI sound card in PCI slot 3 the machine locks up solid when I try to use it. No problems at all with the card in slot 2. -- Måns Rullgård mru@inprovide.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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