[ukasz]

hi

i am planing to buy this mobo ASUS AT3N7A-I. it has VIA VT1708S sound chip. cn any 1 tell does it work on linux ? mainly spdif. analog output also.

[Bornnslippy]

Yes it works great here

[ukasz]

what version of kernel alsa wich distro ?

[Bornnslippy]

First i did this

BIOS
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Change shared memory => 512
Other than that no changes to BIOS (No over clocking)

Ubuntu
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1) Install Ubuntu 9.04 Desktop (user/pwd xbmc/xbmc)
Since the disk is pretty big you should probably create a separate partition for media. This way you can re-install without wiping the media. You need much less than 10G for the system but since we have plenty of it I normally use 8-10 for the system and 3-4 for swap. Create and format a partition of the remaining space and remember the file system (ext2 or ext3). Do not mount it at this point.

2) Install all updates

3) Enable auto-login for XBMC

4) install ssh
sudo apt-get install ssh

*from now on I do everthing over ssh from my winxp laptop using putty.exe

Then installed the nvidia drivers as posted here http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=52259

Then i installed xbmc as posted here http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=54705

Then i followed this for sound

http://monespaceperso.org/blog-en/2009/0...unty-9-04/

Hope that helps worked for me

[ukasz]

ok thx for info. that helped me much

[ukasz]

sound on this mobo requires linux kernel 2.6.32.