Jerry McBride wrote: > > On Sun, 30 Sep 2001 21:07:51 -0400 Ian Marchak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I am looking at building a machine on a shoestring, actually using some > > existing parts and blah blah, you get the idea. > > > <SNIP> > I've got some experience with ac97 on some compaq boxes at work. They're > equiped with ess sound chips. Caldera 3.1 will install on them without > problems and even detect the sound system. It loads the right chip driver > along > with the ac97_codec driver. Since the onboard sound chip sucked for VOIP, I > did a shut down, turned off the box, plugged in a soundblaster value live > (PCI) > sound card and rebooted the machine. After I got to a console, I rmmod the > maestro3 sound driver, modprobe or insmod (whatever you like) the sb live > driver emuk10k and bingo... the ess stuff is disabled, my sb card is running > like a champ. VOIP works pretty good on this compaq stuff too. > > On the PCI bus, the irq's are passed out to the various cards so as to not > cause any > conflicts. Since I don't load the driver for the ess chips, they are > more-or-less cut out > of the system. I'm not real thrilled by doing this, but there's no way, short > of removing > the chips off the motherboard, to disable them othewise. > > Is that good enough for disabling the onboard hardware? Seems to be. There's > no > unusual problems or anything out of the ordinary.
As you say, not a perfect solution, but perfection is too expensive! > > Can anyone shed some light on this? I stopped paying attention to > > Hardware for too long and am playing catch up. > > > > You never catch up, Ian, the best we can hope to do is surf the crest... :') Ride the crest...I just ask the sufers what the crest was like when they get to shore! It's much safer on the beach. -- Linux SxS [http://hal.humberc.on.ca/~mrcn0031/sxs/] _______________________________________________ http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives, Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, Etc ->http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
