Re: [PATCH 001/001] PCI: PCI quirk for Asus A8V and A8V Deluxe motherboards

[Jan-Benedict Glaw]

On Fri, 2006-03-17 16:43:55 +0200, Andras Mantia <amantia@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:
> I know, but in this case I got this answer: 
> " Dear Friend :

Huh?

>   Thank you for contacting ASUS Customer Service.
>   My name is ZYC, and I would be assisting you today. 

Interesting name...

>  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 ."
> 
> 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.

Maybe the fix was running too late? There needs to be a PCI bus scan
afterwards...  Test with a newer kernel version, hopefully not patched
to death...

MfG, JBG

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