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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

HP 8754C - without lspic or sndconfig how do I determine the chip?
The specs list it as 'onboard sound'.  I found info for ALSA.

IBM Netvista 2276-30U, with ADI 1885 soundmax sound as part of Intel 
chipset 810, for which I have only found info for ALSA.

When did ALSA start being used?  How difficult would it be to add it to 
BL2?

Both computers are from year 2000, 800MHz.  We replaced 4 bad caps on the 
IBM (memtest was crashing on test 8 and with heavy graphics usage) and the 
hard drive in the HP (it is fussy, that drive worked in three other 
computers).  The HP still uses 1MB onboard RAM for the onboard video when 
you put in a PCI video card so I set linux to use 1MB less RAM than 
actually there.  mem=127 if you have 128MB DIMMs.

There are two oddball short slots in the IBM and only three PCI.  We added 
video (onboard has only 1MB and no frame buffer) and network card.  We 
would like the third slot for the USB 2.0 card (to use with our 80GB $2 
USB external drive).  We have an external hardware modem.

So I would like to get onboard sound working with this computer, which 
might be fast enough for DVDs without framebuffer.

If I were buying new I would avoid onboard sound and video, but the IBM 
works fine with BL3 and BL2 otherwise.  The onboard video does run Xvesa 
but only up to 1024/256 colors which is not suitable for our camera 
(1280-16M) or playing DVDs even at 800x600, since it would have to reduce 
colors and thus display more slowly.

We were also given two faster bad-caps boards with AC97 sound onboard (to 
be returned when fixed since we have no use for them, or DDR RAM, and 
they are space heaters.)

What does this mean and can they be used with OSS?  The IBM sound is ADI 
AC'97 Soundmax 1885.

We were also given a probably working 700MHz board with onboard sound.

keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org
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