ac97 driver question

[Wolfsblood]

Recently I was fooling around after reinstalling red hat on one of my computers. When I did sndconfig on there it detected and installed my ac97 onboard sound. After installing the module my cmoputer froze up, so I restarted and when it was loading it at boot up the comp froze again there. Now I just installed slackware onto that system and I'm wondering if it is okay to go ahead and use the ac97 onboard sound that came with my asus a7v133 or should I just go out and buy a cheap sound card?

[martinnitram]

what is the kernerl version U had? I also had problem at kernerl 2.2.5+CLE0.8 (RH6.0), but other said that update kernerl can solve this problem. Or U can try third party (like www.alsa-project.org) (http://www.alsa-project.org)) driver.
Hope helpful.