Support for "old" hardware (was:Re: kern/148741: [sound] Headphones are deaf (do not work) on Lenovo ThinkPad X300)

[Ralf Mardorf]

I've 3 old mobos, I'll ditch two of them, but I planed to keep one, an
ASRock K7VT2. Guess what audio chip is on the board. It's not
interesting for sound, I would remove one of my Envy24 cards from my
current machine and mount it to the ASRock board, but IIRC the chip is
needed for the parallelport MIDI. IMO dropping support for AC'97 is a
bad idea.

2 Cents,
Ralf