Nforce2 sound card was Re: Anyone care to read this!

[Kenny Hitt]

Hi.  Have you managed to get the on board nforce sound card to be multi
channel?  I have it working with alsa 1.04, but it seems stuck in
surround.

Thanks in advance.
          Kenny

On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 03:53:34PM -0400, Whitley CTR Cecil H wrote:
> Sina,
> plug and play (commonly referred to as plug and pray) is supported.  I've
> got several linux distributions (live cd's) which boot, auto-detect,
> auto-configure and just plain work on my pc's at home.  These include from
> an amd k6 300, Celeron 366, amd Athlon xp 1700+, amd 2800+, and a p4 3.4
> northwood with s-ata csa pat and dual channel memory.  The only thing I am
> missing from this mix is an amd-64 based system (got the p4 instead).  I've
> got my boy where he will boot into knoppix to play the games, not to mention
> the gentoo game cd with unreal tournament 2003.  Sound works, video works,
> various usb devices (including a joystick) works, short answer - it just
> works.  
> 
> Are there issues?  Sure there are, but I also have issues with xp/2k/98se,
> in particular, I have to use different versions of the nvidia driver for 98
> and xp.  NT 4 doesn't support my hp 2200 usb scanner, many many many
> examples.  In short, one point never makes a good argument.  
> 
> As one other point, the article which started all this was about an Intel
> (supposedly) sound card (built-in).  Intel is famous for their processors,
> but noone would rank them as the top sound card manufacturer, not even a
> popular one.  Onboard sound is okay, but of the computers I have running, I
> use third party sound cards in 3/4 of them.  Intel onboard graphics suck as
> well (and that's not limited to Intel, but there are exceptions).  In fact,
> the exception at my house is the nforce 2 based motherboard.  Nvidia did a
> decent job with their onboard graphics and sound.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Cecil
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