Nathan Thompson wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> On Sun, Jun 04, 2000 at 12:23:09PM +0200, Frederic Bouvier wrote:
> > John Fulmer wrote:
> > >
> > > Having a problem with my new Abit Athlon MB.
> > >
> > > I just replaced a FIC SD-11, which was working just fine, with an
> > > identical system, except for the motherboard. Everything works fine
> > > (except for a known 'jumping' problem with the KA7's and the PS/2
> > > mouse, erk!), except for my ES1371 (Creative AudioPCI) card, which
> > > worked fine in the old system. What happens is that everytime the
> > > card is accessed for more than a few seconds (like a realaudio
> > > stream, or mp3 file), the system locks hard and there is a high
> > > pitch tone coming from the card. I have to reset the system to
> > > reboot. The magic syskey doesn't even work.
>
> I reported this problem my self a while ago. This is purely a hardware
> issue and affects not only linux, but also win98, nt, and win2k. What I
> found is that when the machine freezes with the lovely tone from the
> speakers, i can ping the machine and it will come back to life. You can
> enable the memory hole (15-16mb) in the bios if you use windows (can't
> do that in linux unless you only want to use 15megs :) )... Otherwise
> you need a different sound card.
>
> Check out alt.comp.perifs.mainboard.abit for more info.
>
What are the soundcards known to work under linux and with a Abit KA7
motherboard ? If I have to find another soundcard, I'd prefer it works
fine ;-)
-Fred
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