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Title: need help with sound on a1 xe
Post by: crass84 on May 04, 2009, 08:52:36 PM

sorry if this has been covered but ive started to use my aone again but i do not seem to have sound i dont think i ever did it came with a sound card soundblaster live

Title: Re: need help with sound on a1 xe
Post by: Karlos on May 04, 2009, 09:16:56 PM

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crass84 wrote:
sorry if this has been covered but ive started to use my aone again but i do not seem to have sound i dont think i ever did it came with a sound card soundblaster live

The onboard sound on mine doesn't work, either. The SB128 card seems to be reasonably well supported by AHI though.

Title: Re: need help with sound on a1 xe
Post by: Matt_H on May 04, 2009, 10:00:59 PM

The earlier production runs of the XE had sound onboard, but bugs in UBoot prevented it from being initialized properly. Those bugs were later worked around in this driver (http://os4depot.net/index.php?function=showfile&file=driver/audio/via686b_ahi.lha), but not before the onboard sound was written off as hopeless and the chip was removed from later productions.

So if you've lucky enough to have an older board with the chip, just install that driver and off you go.

Assuming Hyperion ever gets around to fixing UBoot, onboard sound should work under Linux as well.