What is ACIP --will my computer start smoking with it off?

Will these setting allow me to set up 6 channel sound?
AC*P*I (advanced c(something) power interface? i dont remember exactly what it stands for ) not ACIP, is power managment, and doesnt really affect knoppix out of the box, just do a proper shut down and everything is fine, you dont HAVE to disable it, some people wouldnt notice any sound change, but for many, it messess with interupts or something and distorts sound on ac97 (me for example). I wish I could tell you about setting up 6 channel sound, however although im using a 5 point system, im just doing Stereo x2 (same front and back) because my ac97 has only one out (front). What files are affected? Not quite sure, i dont save any of my settings to hdd and they all get reset when i restart the pc so i never quite paid attention. alsamixer? that may save to a file? kde control center probably saves to something? wish i could be of more help :/

thanks for translating it to german, i read some stuff here about people saying 'buy a new soundcard, that static cant at all be helped, ac97 is 7 years old' well until my new soundcard gets here i at least want this to sound as good as possible, and after like 5 hours of searching i came up with all that stuff.