[Sound] Re: Problem with sound

[Bill Nottingham <notting redhat com>]

Antoine Micallef (amica@maltanet.net) said: 
> I am having a problem when I try to configure the sound, using the
> sndconfig utility. The sndconfig detects my on-board sound card, as a
> VIA Apollo, but when I press OK, my system crashes and I have to disable
> the sound card, otherwise the Linux OS won`t load.  I have a DFI AK74 EC
> motherboard with on-board sound enabled and I do not have an other sound
> card. I am using the Linux Mandrake 7.1 OS. I would really appreciate
> any help you can give me!

You need to use either the 2.4 kernel or ALSA; that chip doesn't work
well with 2.2.x.

Bill