AmigaOne News : A1 onboard audio works!

[Matt_H]

Funny... I was just thinking of starting a thread inviting a calm, civil discussion about why the A1's onboard audio didn't work. Guess that won't be neccessary now!

I think my A1 is old enough to have the chip, too (though it'll be a while before I can check, as my board is a few hundred miles away right now). Many thanks to all involved in getting this working!

[Matt_H]

No way I'd attempt this soldering job if my AmigaOne doesn't have the chip. Any non-professional electronics engineer would be crazy to do so.

If your AmigaOnes don't have the chip and you want to add it, please, for the sake of everyone's sanity, either:
A) Don't.
or
B) Bring the board to a professional shop where they have equipment for this sort of thing.

[Matt_H]

Additional information that might be interesting that I've picked up from reading the comments thread on Amigaworld.net:

As stated, the problem was something to do with initializing parts of the southbridge and that normally this is done in the BIOS. Apparently, the next update to UBoot will do just that. The current driver performs that initialization manually.

Based on this information, I'd guess that onboard sound will also work under Linux once the new UBoot is released...?

I'm quite excited about this, as you might be able to tell :-)