Great thread. I just purchased the same motherboard and will be doing the same exact thing soon. Thanks for the heads up on SPDIF bracket.

Tip for digital sound with this board: Once you have it working, DO NOT fiddle with the sound config in linux! Ever!!

Mine has been losing sound entirely on average about once every month. It happened in Ubuntu, and now it's happening in KnoppMyth. Sometimes it's because I changed something in alsamixer (trying to get sound input from an old bt848 card), sometimes it just spontaneously quits on its own.

It's a real nuisance to fix. At the moment it's limping along on line-out jack going into my home theater. None of this is good for the family acceptance factor.

If anyone comes up with a digital sound config file that works reliably, please post it and tell us where it goes.

Does anyone have a full xorg.conf file they can show me? I am working on a buddies machine and I think I am all set, just need to get the device section parameters correct. He has his PVR-350 as the video out, I need to change it to the onboard component.

Thanks!

I didn't see this answered.

In the BIOS where all of the TV settings are, you'll see a setting called "Frame Buffer". I believe it is set to a relatively low setting (32 meg or 64) by default. You should be able to change it up to 256MB in the BIOS.

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