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C-Media Electronics Inc. CMI8738-based PCI Sound Card
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Reviews
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Date of last review
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13
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70602
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05-27-2007
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Average Price
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100% of reviewers
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$20.99
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8.3
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Description:
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Perfect Linux support: GPL'd drivers for both ALSA and OSS are available. The OSS drivers are integrated into both 2.4 and 2.6 and the ALSA drivers are in 2.6 and easily available for 2.4 at the ALSA project's web site.
This chip is found on many motherboards as well as budget PCI cards. Most are 5.1/6-channel cards, some have S/PDIF support.
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Keywords:
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cmi8738 c-media pci sound card
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/sbin/lspci output:
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01:04.0 Multimedia Audio controller: C-Media Electronics Inc CM8738 (rev 10)
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Chipset:
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C-Media 8738
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Connection Type:
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PCI
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05-17-2004, 05:25 PM
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#1
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Registered: May 2004
Distribution: Mandriva 2005 LE
Posts: 16
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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): None indicated | Rating: 10
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Kernel (uname -r):
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2.4 somthing
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Distribution:
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RH9
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I was having trouble getting an onboard Asus soundcard to work (it used an i810) so I chucked in my old $15 CMI based sound card and it works "out of the box" in a RH9 installation - works perfectly from the start, plays Unreal 2k4 with out modification - including the voice facility :)
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06-04-2004, 02:29 PM
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#2
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Registered: Jul 2003
Distribution: Gentoo 2004.2: Who needs exmmpkg when you have emerge?
Posts: 1,795
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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): $70.00 | Rating: 9
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Kernel (uname -r):
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2.6.6-goddard
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Mandrake 9.1
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Came onboard my mobo (iWill XP333 Ali chipset). Works great with ALSA 1.0.4 (with the configure options --with-cards=cmipci --with-isapnp=no), and it supports full duplex fine. The only hassle is that ALSA cant seem to play more then 1 audio stream at a time. Also, ALSA doesnt save my mixer settings when I reboot, but thats an ALSA bug. Overall, great card if you dont really want Dolby Surround with 12 speakers and 32 audio streams (I wish I could have that kind of card or speaker set :D).
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06-19-2004, 01:43 PM
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#3
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Registered: Jun 2003
Distribution: Debian 7 (Wheezy)
Posts: 74
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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): $14.95 | Rating: 10
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Kernel (uname -r):
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2.4.21-226-default
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SuSE Personal 9.0
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Purchased an Inland Soundcard PCI Wavetable, which has C-Media's 8738 on it, and the card works perfectly with SuSE Linux Personal 9.0. The overall audio quality with Cambridge SoundWorks PC Works speakers is excellent. Very pleased.
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10-21-2004, 01:54 AM
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#4
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Registered: Sep 2003
Distribution: Arch .7
Posts: 47
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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): None indicated | Rating: 6
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Kernel (uname -r):
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2.6.8-521
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Fedora Core 2
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good card. good sound. only problem is that I can only get it to play 1 audio stream at a time. it sucks that i cant play music and have the sounds for gaim or other programs....unless i did something wrong.
supported with 2.6 and 2.4 kernels (atleast they have for me)
kernel module is snd_cmipci
I have the onboard sound with my Soyo kt400 dragon ultra platinum mobo, not the PCI version
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11-04-2004, 10:06 AM
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Registered: Aug 2004
Distribution: slackies
Posts: 55
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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): $11.00 | Rating: 9
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Kernel (uname -r):
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2.4.26
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Slackware 9.1
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I have been using this soundcard since the kernel 2.4.21 has been released. All the while, i didnt use this soundcard with the kernel provided by slackware. I build the kernel of my Linux box from source that was obtained at kernel.org. This card works fine from 2.4.21 until 2.4.26. A normal soundcard with almost perfect reliability.
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11-20-2004, 07:54 PM
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#6
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Registered: Jun 2004
Distribution: Fedora 17 86_64
Posts: 344
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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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2.6.9-1.678
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Distribution:
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Fedora Core 3
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This sound chipset was integrated on my mainboard (Asus Tusi-M) and works fine.
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05-11-2005, 06:16 PM
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Registered: May 2005
Distribution: PCLinuxOS .92
Posts: 59
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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): $9.99 | Rating: 10
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Kernel (uname -r):
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2.61
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Distribution:
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Mepis 3.3
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Sabrent CMedia 8738 6 cahannel pci sound card
model # SBT-SP6C
Just plug it in and you're ready to go,Moe !
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07-19-2005, 03:09 PM
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#8
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Registered: Jul 2005
Distribution: Mandriva 2006
Posts: 104
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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): None indicated | Rating: 7
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Kernel (uname -r):
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2.6.8.1-12mdk
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Mandrake 10.1
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Some problems with ALSA,but nothing important.
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08-02-2005, 05:48 AM
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#9
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Registered: Jul 2003
Distribution: Ubuntu 8.04
Posts: 419
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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): $15.00 | Rating: 5
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Kernel (uname -r):
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2.6.11-6mdk
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Distribution:
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Mandrake
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This is a cheap card but the price paid is poor compatibility. The card has great difficulties working in full 5.1 mode under linux. You are better off spending the little extra to get a "soundblaster live!". The compatibility is much better though im not sure about the sound quality difference. It is probably slight.
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10-14-2005, 11:19 PM
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Registered: Oct 2005
Distribution: Fedora Core 5,4,3 & Ubuntu 6.06, 8.10
Posts: 403
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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): $16.00 | Rating: 8
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Fdora Core 4
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This one was a bit jiggy
Fedora dected it when i plugged teh thing in but i was unable to activate it as the OS refused to switch from my Integrated SIS soundcard to this one. After re-installing FC4, this one is working fine. heck!! 20 CAD$ for 4.1 sound !!! and no drivers need be installed aye.
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01-16-2006, 11:54 AM
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#11
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Registered: Jun 2004
Distribution: Slackware
Posts: 54
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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): $10.00 | Rating: 10
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Kernel (uname -r):
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2.6.12
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Distribution:
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PCLinuxOS
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This is possibily the most widely supported Linux sound card. Puts out pretty good sound, will work out of the box most of the time. The cards are very cheap too, most of the time under $10.
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02-20-2006, 01:00 PM
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#12
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Registered: Sep 2005
Distribution: Slackware 10.1, FC5
Posts: 164
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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): None indicated | Rating: 7
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Kernel (uname -r):
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2.4.29
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Distribution:
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Slackware
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Playback works fine, except for the lack of hardware mixing (only one sound can play at a time), but recording is marginal - I couldn't record through the Line In port, and the Mic input requires a preamp if you want to use an actual microphone with it. Still, if you're not doing any recording, it's a decent choice.
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05-27-2007, 02:52 AM
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#13
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Registered: Jan 2005
Posts: 183
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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): None indicated | Rating: 8
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Kernel (uname -r):
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2.6.17.13
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Slackware 11.0
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Worked out of the box, except don't get any sound from the front speaker of my 5.1 system.
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