[PLUG] Motherboard sound

[Steve Bonds]

My experience has been that built-in sound tends to be done using whatever
sound chipset was the cheapest available the week the board was
designed.  As if that isn't bad enough, often they can't be disabled (or
even when they are, they aren't *fully* disabled.)

For linux, I would definately go brand-name modular and save yourself some
pain.  Unless you like pain.

Oh, wait.  You're a UNIX/PC hacker.  Of course you like pain.  ;-)

  -- Steve

On Thu, 13 Jun 2002, Paul Johnston pjohnston at inetarena.com XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX wrote:

> Should I get a motherboard without built-in sound (or with built-in sound
> disabled) and use a simple sound card with known support for Linux?  Is the
> driver problem due to the built-in sound, or is it due to the fact that the
> most current Linux distros may not support the most current sound technology?