AmigaOne News : A1 onboard audio works!

[billt]

> Oh yes, VIA documentation isn't the best possible, but it is the same for everyone.

Maybe the pdf itself is. But when Gigabyte has a problem, they've got enough clout (ie. order volume at risk) to get an answer. The chip vendors typically don't want to be bothered with answering questions from a market measured in the many hundreds or low thousands.

[billt]

> most likely some will try and fry their A1:s ..
>but at least they have been warned for
>SMD-soldering not been suitable fo total novices.

Not everyone is a total novice... Besides, try finding one of these chips to order.

[billt]

> Can electronic repair technician handle this socket?
>
>examples:
>http://www.antona.com/dta8000.htm

I'm not sure what good this would do. They don't have 48 pin qfp sockets, but look at th epricing for what they do have. US$145 for a 100 pin qfp... Plus it'd be a hack to wire the grid of pins to the qfp PCB footprint, which would be a lot more work and far far larger expense than just soldering the US$5 or less chip directly.

For kicks I do plan to get a few chips and see if I can add one to my own XE board, if I ever have time to pull my board out of the system and mess with it. I don't see it being useful in my case as I have a nice Maudio board, but for fun in seeing how hard it might be and if it works.