From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98; Win 9x 4.90) Description of problem: When installing the AC97 sound card, the response is that it cannot be installed due to not factoring 1 into -21 channels. The sndcard appears to have been installed during inital installation and after maybe one minute of running X an error is popped up saying the CPU has overloaded due to snd config. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. i386 with AC97 sound card. 2. load with run-level 3 3. login as root 4. run sndconfig, AC97 will be detected. 5. Play sound sample, shows fail response Actual Results: unable to play sound due to channels being -21 Expected Results: hear sound, works on 7.1 seawolf Additional info:
This is fixed in a later kernel (2.4.7-10 or so).