[H-GEN] Question from a wannabe Linux newbie.

[Sandra Milne]

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On Fri, 17 Jan 2003 11:22, Robert Kearey shared the following ideas:
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> Rick Phillips wrote:
> > Mandrake 9.0 "does" AC97 "out of the box"
>
> AC97 is a just a front end for just about any crappy audio chipset you
> can imagine. All Linux distro's "do" AC97, but whether they can drive
> the chipset behind it is another matter entirely.

Mine is actually a C-Media 9738 which according to the c-media website 
doesn't exist. Very interesting. I do love their 8738 chipset tho, the cmpci 
module is fantastic and whoever is working on it is doing a very good job at 
adding all the extra 'nice' features that the windohs drivers have.

Sandra.
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