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12-07-2004
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9.3
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This sound card is built into many laptops and more than a few desktop moterboards. After some trial and error I have goten this card to sould better in ALSA than my friend Sound Blaster 5.1 with windows drivers.
Pros: Cheap, Easy to Setup, Very nice sound output, can be turned off in BIOS, and it does not take up a pci slot.
Cons: None that I can think of right now.
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VIA AC 97 onboard chip
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/sbin/lspci output:
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00:07.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 AC97Controller (rev 50)
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VT82C686
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onboard
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03-01-2004, 08:12 AM
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Registered: Jan 2004
Distribution: Gentoo
Posts: 1,014
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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): None indicated | Rating: 9
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Kernel (uname -r):
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2.4.24
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LFS-5.0
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The interesting thing with this card is its full compatibility with OSS drivers (official sound architecture in kernel 2.4 and previous) and ALSA drivers (sound architecture in kernel 2.6).
The install is very easy as the kernel provides the drivers unless you want ALSA drivers with 2.4 kernels but the compilation doesn't set problems
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03-12-2004, 04:36 PM
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Registered: Apr 2002
Distribution: Mandriva 2009.0 PowerPack x86_64
Posts: 150
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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): None indicated | Rating: 0
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Kernel (uname -r):
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2.4.22
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Mandrake 9.2
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Hey, can you explain how to do the ALSA thing with the 2.4 kernel. I have the 2.4 kernel and my sound does work but it sounds pretty bad, at least on XMMS.
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03-12-2004, 08:54 PM
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#3
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Registered: Sep 2003
Posts: 2
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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): None indicated | Rating: 10
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2.4.21-192-athlon
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Suse
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This current Suse dist(10) needed no prompting or tweeking at all - volume seems a little lacking... but I am a newbe and do not have any idea what to even try to get a better response
I also have an install of FreeBSD 5.2.1 and same story - works fine with no intervention.. yet I find it lacking in volume compared to a windows standard install of the same hardware
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05-09-2004, 08:43 PM
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Registered: Feb 2004
Distribution: Gentoo
Posts: 129
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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): None indicated | Rating: 9
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2.6.5
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Gentoo
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works all fine so far, except MP3 playback has a slight scratch sound.
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07-22-2004, 03:39 PM
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#5
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Registered: Jun 2004
Distribution: debian SID
Posts: 2,170
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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): None indicated | Rating: 9
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Kernel (uname -r):
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kernel 2.6.7
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debian
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No problems so far.
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12-07-2004, 05:12 AM
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Registered: Dec 2004
Distribution: Debian
Posts: 4
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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): None indicated | Rating: 0
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Kernel (uname -r):
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2.6.8.1
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Debian
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hi,
it's working on my laptop too. but it seems that midi is not supported.
does somebody know why?
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