Sound Cards & Drivers

10K1Box Projectvery interesting hardware mods for the SBLive
4Frontoffers commercially available sound drivers for UNIXLinux
ALSAadvanced Linux sound architecture project
ALSA Softwarea list from Steve Ratcliffe
Acer Travelmate 722TX Setup For Linuxincludes essential information on sound setup
AlsaBuilda script to build a preemptive 2.4 kernel with ALSA sound support
AudioScience HPI Driversnow available for Linux
Aureal Open-source Driver Projectkeeping Vortex development alive
CMI8338/8738 Driverofficial Linux drivers from C-Media
Configuring the SoundBlaster 128 PCI on RedHat 6.0/Linux 2.2.14 with ALSA Driversa guide from Jason L. Buberel
Creative Open Sourceopen-source drivers and other material from Creative Labs
Crystal Sound CS4232 Configuration for OSS/Freemore advice from Steve Crowder
Direct SB Patchruns Sound Blaster compatible devices from <em>DOSemu<em>, from Valery Shchedrin
Dream SAM9407 Driver Projectdevelopment project for DSP chip used in TerraTec EWS64XL, Guillemot Maxisound, and Hoontech Soun..
ESS Maestro 2E Linux Driver for ALSAfrom Matthias Braun
ESS Maestro Infomail list for users
ESS Maestro3/Allegrouseful information from Zach Brown
ESS1868 Plug and Play SoundcardBrian Miller's page
ESS1868 PnPcard set-up information from George Dau
Echoaudio ALSA Drivera driver for the Gina, Layla, Darla, Mia and Mona cards
Emagic Audiowerk8 Linux drivera low-level Linux kernel driver and user-space JACK driver from Martijn Sipkema
FFADOFFADO is a a generic Linux driver for FireWire based audio devices
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Gravis Ultrasound Projectdedicated to improved Linux support for the Gravis soundcards
HDSP Utilitiesa mixer, a configurator, and a loader for the RME hardware, from Thomas Charbonnel
HP OmniBook 800a survey of this notebook computer, includes a mini-HOWTO on setting up its sound support
Hollywood Plus/DXR3 Driverkernel drivers for two popular DVD playback cards
IBM ThinkPad 390econfiguring audio and multimedia
IBM ThinkPad i1411a HOWTO for configuring the sound system
KasoundMarc Brooker's GUI for defining the ALSA .asoundrc file, requires up-to-date KDE
Linux sound drivers for the ThinkPad 390ean overview from Allin Cottrell
MIDIatorserial port MIDI hardware from Key Electronics, with links to UNIXLinux drivers
Midiman/Tascam Firmware Loaderfor MidiSport USB MIDI interfaces and Tascam USB Audio interfaces
NOTEMIDIkernel module for MIDI output via the RS-232 serial port
OPTi 82C931-based soundcardsinfo from Donald Burns
OSS/Freeinformation about the pre-2.5 Linux kernel sound driver
PC SpeakerPC Speaker * Sound Cards and Drivers
PC Speaker Driverold driver from Humboldt University in Berlin
PC Speaker Driver Patchfrom Erik Inge Bolso
PCMCIA Audio/MIDIPCMCIA Audio/MIDI * Sound Cards and Drivers
PDAudio-CFhigh-quality cardsoftware for PDA or laptop, from Core Sound
PortMan PC/S Drivernew PC serial port MIDI driver from Olivier Delhaye
Primary ResourcesPrimary Resources * Sound Cards and Drivers
Project: Emu10K1drivers for the SBLive and the new Audigy cards
Roland MPU-401an alternate driver
SAM9407 kernel modulefrom Gerd Rausch
SBLive On Linux FAQ (unofficial)everything you wanted to know...
SBLive Setupinstructions for compiling the CVS code, from Morganth
SBLive for Linuxan unofficial and very informative page
SFVbmX front-end for creating and manipulating virtual bank files for Creative Labs AWE3264 soundcards
SRNDLinux driver for the miroMEDIA Surround Dolby Pro Logic decoder, includes KDE and XViews GUIs
Serial Port MIDIa driver from George Hansper
SoundBlaster-16 PnP mini-HOWTOby Eric Z. Ayers
SoundBlaster-AWE32/64 Driver Pageby Takashi Iwai
SoundBlaster-AWE32/64 mini-HOWTOby http:homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.deMarcus.BrinkmannMarcus Brinkmann
SoundBlaster-AWE64/Golda configuration HOWTO for Linux and OSSFree, from Steve Crowder
SoundTrack 128 Rubya report on a Hoontech card built with the SAM9407 and CS4237B chipsets
Soundcard Attrition PageRichard Dobson's torture tests: Can <em>your<em> board withstand the challenge ?
Tascam US-428 Drivera patch for ALSA CVS, adds new driver for the Tascam USB interface controller
ThinkPad 390eAllin Cottrell's configuration page
ThinkPad i1411a HOWTO from Patrick Stoddard
Toshiba Tecra sounda guide for installing Linux on the popular laptop series, with a section on setting up audio sup..
Turtle Beach MultiSound/Tahiti/Monterey cardsare supported by a package from Markus Mummert
USB Audio/MIDIUSB Audio/MIDI * Sound Cards and Drivers
USB-MIDI Drivernew code from Nagano Daisuke
USBUA100"device driver and console program for the Roland UA-100 USB MIDIaudio desktop music production d..
VIA 82Cxxx Audio Driverfrom Jeff Garzik
VariousVarious * Sound Cards and Drivers
Via 686Anative OSS-compatible driver from Jeff Garzik
Yamaha OPL3-SA2a guide from James Tappin
Zefiro ZA2 driverfrom Martin Pahl
Zoltrix Nightingale S/PDIFa guide to modifying the hardware, from Abhijit Dasgupta
dma sound driver for LinuxPPCsoftware from Iain Sandoe
sounddriverutility to start the proper sound driver (OSS or ALSA)

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