dimension 4600 ich5 sound card drive

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Sun Aug 10 20:57:40 UTC 2003


seth vidal (skvidal at phy.duke.edu) said: 
>  I noticed that it appears the ich5 driver for the dell dimension 4600
> integrated sound card is now supported in the 2.4.22pre kernels. Any
> possibility of backporting (or side-porting) this driver into the red
> hat kernels for severn or the next beta?

ICH5 support of some sort was in previous development kernels,
however, that driver is *extremely* unhappy on some variants
(basically, loading it on any chipset that uses MMIO exclusively
appears to lock the box), so it was disabled.

Bill





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