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tommy_vercetti

May 7 2005, 18:07

Hi,

I have a VIA Technologies, Inc. P4M266A-8235 Motherboard, with onboard sound. Now the problem is that it's a realtek sound chip(On the chip it shows the realtek logo on the mobo).

The drivers from the VIAarena site as well as drivers from the Realtek site run pretty fine. Anybody has any ideas as to which ones I should be running...

Thanx.

P.S.

The drivers in question are the
VinlyAC97 codec and
RealTek AC97 codec

soldier1st

May 11 2005, 04:42

realtek,via sound sucks.

HoochieMamma

May 11 2005, 04:43

I use the realtek ones (they seem to get updated more often)

tommy_vercetti

May 12 2005, 10:45

"realtek,via sound sucks." I know, can't help it, Creative Sound Blaster Audigy is very expensive where I live. Will be upgrading to the $49 one. Till then using this one

And yes the Realtek ones are updated frequently on a monthly basis, The via are kind of dead. Had problems with earlier versions of Realtek, the new ones run perfectly with easy access to the equaliser using the system tray icon.

mr_demilord

May 14 2005, 07:13

I use alsa sound driver.

/me runs linux

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