a7n8x-x onboard sound working?

bobbens · 09-23-2004, 01:03 PM

Anybody gotten the asus a7n8x-x motherboard's sound to work? I just read that its's not compatible with linux (the drivers anyways). Just wanna make sure. And if it's not compatible anyone know a cheap good linux and win32 compatible sound card i should buy?

I'm using debian /w 2.6.7 kernel, amd 2600+ xp, a7n8x-x mobo.

Thanks

finegan · 09-23-2004, 04:51 PM

Hmmm, what's the output of /sbin/lspci, that'll at least tell us exactly what sound card we've got onhand.

Cheers,

Finegan

bobbens · 09-23-2004, 05:01 PM

Umm I can't seem to find that file you're talking about. I dunno, but the Win32 CD comes with the nForce2 controller. Here are the specs if you want to look at them, though it just says sound output type Sound Card. Know any other file or someway for me to log the sound output?

finegan · 09-23-2004, 05:08 PM

The command, /sbin/lspci... should exist, if its the nvidia sound card, then i810_audio has experimental support for the card... tried:

/sbin/modprobe i810_audio

I don't know the alsa module's name, but its similar...

Cheers,

Finegan

bobbens · 09-23-2004, 05:10 PM

Code:

bobbens@debian:~$ /sbin/lspci
bash: /sbin/lspci: No such file or directory

It's onboard and it runs with the nForce2 driver also I think or something like that, i know that you can get a Realtek driver for Win32, though the official one is nVidia. Hope that helps you help me :P

hw-tph · 09-24-2004, 07:16 AM

The nforce2 sound chip works flawlessly for me on my NF7-S revision 2 board. Use the Alsa snd-intel8x0 driver and you should be OK. If you have a recent install of Alsa, then alsaconf should be able to set it up automatically for you.

In Debian, lspci is part of the pciutils package, so just apt-get install pciutils and you should be able to use it.

Håkan