The Radeon 3870 comes equipped with on on card ATI HDMI audio chip.

[root@(protected)
Card:ATI Radeon X1300 and later: ATI Technologies Inc|Radeon HD 3870
[DISPLAY_VGA] (vendor:1002 device:9501 subv:1002 subd:2542)

[root@(protected)
unknown      : ATI Technologies Inc|Radeon HD 3870 Audio device
(vendor:1002 device:aa18)

When harddrake configures the "sound card" it sets it to use
snd-hda-intel.
This is incorrect.
According to the Realtek docs the ati chip should instead use
snd-atiixp


  Charles


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