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VIA on-board sound

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hatboy

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I'm wondering about the quality and compatibility of the VIA on-board sound on many KT133-based boards (I'm specifically looking at the Epox EP-8KTA+). Does it have decent sound quality? Also, is there Linux support for it? Thanks.
 
Question i have the EPOX akta2 duron 800 w/ a sound blaster live 5.1
I disable the audia legacy stuff in the bios but for some reasen when you look in device manager is still detecting part of it. It has a question mark because i haven't installed it. The sound blaster live gamer 5.1 works fine i just left it that way . I checked disable this device in all profile. But i was just wondering if there was a way to remove this all together. If i remove it in device manager it detects it again but i just hit cancel. Have anyone of you have this problem?
 
I recently bought a EPoX EP-8KTA2 motherboard, which also has the onboard VIA PC97 audio. My plan all along was to disable it from the start and get a Live! Value, but then I decided to at least TRY it first. I must say it's much better than I thought! I have had absolutely no problems with quality or compatibility. (That being said, I am not using, or have even tried, the Soundblaster legacy mode.) Even the built in hardware "3D stereo effect" works great. I don't know, maybe onboard sound is better these days!

On a side not though, I'm having a problem with my Sidewinder gamepad and the gameport (it intermitently disconnects and adds multiple cpl instances). I don't know if this is related to the soundcard or not. I just installed the newest VIA Audio and MB drivers, so it may be fixed already.

Mike
 
Oh an refering to the other post about the via audio still remaining in device manager:

Somewhere on the Epox site it says you have to disable it in the BIOS as well as remove the windows drivers. If it's not in "add/remove programs", run the via audio drivers setup again and select uninstall. (Yes, it really does have an uninstall option! 😉

That may work!
 
Thanks for the info everybody. I'm still wondering about the Linux compatibility, though. Does anybody know anything about this?
 
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