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The vortex1, or au8820 chipset is a pci sound card supported by the alsa drivers. The company does not exist any longer, and, the sourceforge project has now merged the drivers into alsa. That'll be the sure bet to get the card up and running. You can find it here.
Distribution: Slackware, Windows, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Mac OS X
Posts: 5,175
Rep:
Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): None indicated | Rating: 9
Kernel (uname -r):
2.4.22
Distribution:
Slackware 9.1
No problems setting the card up. I had to uninstall the alsa packages, then down load and install the latest alsa packages. The alsa configuration tool found it and configured it on the first try. You can get the drivers at the alsa site.
http://www.alsa-project.org/
The card has been supported since version 0.9.7c, so most newer distributions should support the card "out of the box". I'm only rating it a nine because it's an older card, and any one with an older distribution such as myself will need to at least upgrade the alsa packages to get functionality.
Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): $2.00 | Rating: 8
Kernel (uname -r):
2.6.9
Distribution:
Arch
Works much better than the sis7012 and via-82xx card under linux, but linux does not support the card as well as FreeBSD does. Sometimes needs to be unloaded and reloaded to work properly.
Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): None indicated | Rating: 10
Kernel (uname -r):
2.6.16
Distribution:
Debian
I tried the cmi8738 (poor sound quality/volume, card may have been defective) and audigy ls (alsa drivers didn't seem to support sb0570 variant) before salvaging this card (au8820 driver) from an old computer. This card is excellent. I'm able to listen to multiple audio streams simulataneously, which is something I haven't been able to do in the past and is a plus. Sound quality/volume is plenty well-suited for my needs.
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