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Verted
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 Posted: Tue Jun 15, 2004 6:07 pm Post subject: ASUS A7N8X-E Duluxe nForce2 motherboard |
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I've heard that people have had problems with this in the past. Exactly what problems are they, and can they be overcome?
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| Posted: Tue Jun 15, 2004 6:22 pm Post subject: |
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The APIC issues are pretty much fixed AFAIK, and there's nothing else wrong with my A7N8X.
Edit: the actual problem was that enabling APIC would usually result in random lockups. Newer kernels include a fix for it, and you can always just disable it instead. If you want more information, search the forums, there are several threads on this.
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| Posted: Tue Jun 15, 2004 6:24 pm Post subject: |
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I have no problems with mine-just don't try to use APIC.
One other thing, I don't use the onboard nforce2 audio-hardware mixing doesn't exist with current alsa drivers. You can use dmix but I had an extra SBLive! kicking around so I use that.
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Verted
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| Posted: Tue Jun 15, 2004 6:28 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks. Thats not too bad, so I will probably actually get the board. Erm, what exactly is APIC, and what is audio-hardware mixing?
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| Posted: Tue Jun 15, 2004 6:45 pm Post subject: |
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| Verted wrote: | | Thanks. Thats not too bad, so I will probably actually get the board. Erm, what exactly is APIC, and what is audio-hardware mixing? |
APIC is an Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller. Essentially, it's a replacement for the old Programmable Interrupt Controllers (PIC) that plays better with SMP. Also, it's not to be confused with ACPI.
As for the audio hardware mixing, it simply means that you can have two processes talking to ALSA at once, and the hardware will mix the streams together. Essentially it's the hardware doing what ESD and Arts have done in software. It's nice if you can get it, but it's quite possible to live without. |
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Verted
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| Posted: Tue Jun 15, 2004 6:47 pm Post subject: |
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Ok, so you're saying I should get the ASUS A7N8X-E Duluxe and everything will be fine, if I get a sound card?
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| Posted: Tue Jun 15, 2004 7:36 pm Post subject: |
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| Verted wrote: | | Ok, so you're saying I should get the ASUS A7N8X-E Duluxe and everything will be fine, if I get a sound card? |
It'll be fine without a dedicated sound card. You can use the onboard sound card perfectly well, but you'll have to use ESD or Arts for software mixing. But since almost every sound program I've come across has support for both, you should be fine. |
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| Posted: Tue Jun 15, 2004 7:37 pm Post subject: |
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The nvidia soundstorm works alright, but yeah, you can't play 2 sounds at once (ie, if you have mp3s playing and then start a video clip, the video clip won't have sound).
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| Posted: Tue Jun 15, 2004 7:54 pm Post subject: |
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| silverpig wrote: | | The nvidia soundstorm works alright, but yeah, you can't play 2 sounds at once (ie, if you have mp3s playing and then start a video clip, the video clip won't have sound). |
Unless you use software mixing, which isn't hard at all. |
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| Posted: Tue Jun 15, 2004 7:57 pm Post subject: |
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| silverpig wrote: | | The nvidia soundstorm works alright, but yeah, you can't play 2 sounds at once (ie, if you have mp3s playing and then start a video clip, the video clip won't have sound). |
Nvidias SoundStorm is not supported in Linux in any way or form sorry. |
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silverpig
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I have sound with a soundstorm. I don't get anything other than basic features (no DD 5.1 encoding, hardware mixing, etc), but I do have sound working.
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blueworm
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For more info see this article.
Basically you have an mcp-T southbridge but no linux driver for it. all you can access are the basic mcp sound hardware(ac97 codec). |
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spb
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| Posted: Tue Jun 15, 2004 9:23 pm Post subject: |
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| blueworm wrote: | | silverpig wrote: | | The nvidia soundstorm works alright, but yeah, you can't play 2 sounds at once (ie, if you have mp3s playing and then start a video clip, the video clip won't have sound). |
Nvidias SoundStorm is not supported in Linux in any way or form sorry. |
The SoundStorm works perfectly with the i810 driver. You just don't get hardware mixing. |
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blueworm
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| thebell wrote: | | blueworm wrote: | | silverpig wrote: | | The nvidia soundstorm works alright, but yeah, you can't play 2 sounds at once (ie, if you have mp3s playing and then start a video clip, the video clip won't have sound). |
Nvidias SoundStorm is not supported in Linux in any way or form sorry. |
The SoundStorm works perfectly with the i810 driver. You just don't get hardware mixing. |
Sorry m8, That is not the nvidia APU(soundStorm) you are using just the intel8x0(ac97 codec). |
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Appu
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| Posted: Tue Jun 22, 2004 5:31 pm Post subject: |
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Has anyone gotten that Asus proprietary Wi-Fi slot/card and antenna (that ships
with this board) to work under Gentoo? I am actually interested in running it not
just as a wireless LAN adapter but also as an access point.
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