Any idea what chipset or brand of "mainboard"? Maybe someone on the list has something similar.
for me it's a Via Apollo KT266 with a VT8233 Southbridge
as I said (but it only got to Jose), -audiobuf 500 helped the latency sucks of course, but this is only my development box I never ran any tests on how low I could get the buffer size - would that be of interest to you, Miller?
personally, I wouldn't expect good (or even decent) performance from an on-board sound chip - if I were to perform or produce with this machine I would most definitely throw in a quality sound card of course, at universities you have to make compromises...