What hardware would you recommend for compatability with Haiku going foward?

@Karl
now I know who to blame next time I buy a motherboard with not working HDA audio. ;-)

The hda driver is supposed to work with all high definition audio devices (one standard driver - like AHCI SATA) and I believe will not work with those that use newer codecs or do not have resources.

@haikuhacker
http://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/6213

AudigySE will NOT work. The driver depends on chipset and Creative Labs changed to lower end chips for some of their sound cards. This affects a couple of Live cards too. Vendor & Device ids is really required to know what drivers exit.

For Creative (0x1102) cards, only 0x0002, 0x0004 and 0x0008 device ids are supported.
http://pci-ids.ucw.cz/read/PC/1102

That AudigySE is 0x0007 (unsupported).
Search here for 1102 to see device id for that card.
http://www.mail-archive.com/ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com/msg1959832.html

Pretty sure my atom 330 desktop has hda working plus intel 945 driver too. Though I would tell you to look for integrated, Geforce 6150 or 7150 micro atx motherboard, to get more powerful system (for gnash, HD videos, etc. ) and accelerated nvidia driver.

Edit: I was able to find used SB Live cards for $5-10 about 2 years back. Most of these will work except for a couple and are a good choice for audio. Check with local, used computer stores.

Would be very easy to just buy a Acer Aspire One....
Mine works in Haiku.

ION chipset is Nvidia's and provides Geforce 9400M graphics. Haiku's nvidia driver only supports up to Geforce 7950. I bought my Atom 330 motherboard couple months after was released. Mine was made by Intel with i945 graphics (see below link) - hda, network and intel_extreme (with LCD monitor) work for me.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813121359

Very hard to find low cost i945 Atom 330 boards these days. Nvidia ION has more powerful and faster graphics card (but only helpful in Windows because no Haiku driver) but not worth the big price difference.

I was pointing out that you could get micro atx motherboard with somewhat better video (forget Geforce 6150 as they were not good) like Intel G41 integrated chipset (or 785g AMD motherboard with onboard ATI graphics) + more powerful CPU like this for a little more money:
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?Edp...

But it really depends on what you're going to use the computer for. Atom's are excellent for low power use and super compact but too weak to do any HD video, HD flash, 3D gaming and slower at compiling code and video or audio conversions. I'm guessing none of that stuff matters to you anyways. :-)

I looked over the specs:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813121399&cm_re=d5...

In theory, the hda audio and network should work (Realtek net driver upgraded to latest recently). VESA for video but good chance the 3150 graphics card could be added to intel_extreme driver BUT ticket 6213 says the audio will not work with this motherboard.

Ok but you won't have audio unless you put in a supported PCI sound card and even that may not work. Finding low profile will be very impossible.

The sound card appears to not have resources allocated (at least Haiku can't find them). That's why it does not work. See this comment for details. (this issue has nothing to do with the hda driver).

http://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/6213#comment:2

PCI resources relates to this ticket (could be ACPI issue?):
http://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/3

This may not be fixed for very long time and I hope you can live with no sound.