Specifications

software. The majority of sound cards manufactured today now use PCI. Most motherboards that provide
on−board sound hardware also make use of the PCI bus.
USB is a newer bus architecture for external hot−pluggable devices. In theory USB bus sound cards could be
developed, but I am only aware of USB−bus speakers being sold currently.
3.3. Sound Cards
The following sound cards are supported by the Linux kernel sound driver. Some of the items listed are audio
chip sets rather than models of sound cards. The list is incomplete because there are many sound cards
compatible with these that will work under Linux. To add further to the confusion, some manufacturers
periodically change the design of their cards causing incompatibilities and continue to sell them as the same
model.
6850 UART MIDI Interface AD1816/AD1816A based
cards
AD1816/AD1816A sound
chip
AD1848 sound chip
ADSP−2115 ALS−007 based cards
(Avance Logic)
ALS−1x0 sound chip ATARI onboard sound
ATI Stereo F/X Acer FX−3D AdLib Amiga onboard sound
Audio Excel DSP 16 AudioDrive Aztech Sound Galaxy
Washington 16
Aztech Sound Galaxy
WaveRider 3D
Aztech Sound Galaxy
WaveRider Pro32
Beethoven ADSP−16 CMI8330 sound chip CMI8338/8378 sound
chip
Cardinal DSP16 Compaq Deskpro XL
onboard sound
Corel Netwinder
WaveArtist
Crystal CS423x
Crystal CS4280 Crystal CS46xx ES1370 sound chip ES1371 sound chip
ESC614 sound chip ESS Maestro 1/2/2E
sound ship
ESS Solo1 sound chip ESS1688 sound chip
ESS1788 sound chip ESS1868 sound chip ESS1869 sound chip ESS1887 sound chip
ESS1888 sound chip ESS688 sound chip Ensoniq AudioPCI
(ES1370)
Ensoniq AudioPCI 97
(ES1371)
Ensoniq/Reveal/Spea
SoundScape
Gallant SC−6000 Gallant SC−6600 Gravis Ultrasound
Gravis Ultrasound ACE Gravis Ultrasound Max Gravis Ultrasound with 16
bit option
HP Kayak
Highscreen
Sound−Booster32 Wave3D
IBM MWAVE Jazz 16 Logitech Sound Man
16
Logitech SoundMan Games Logitech SoundMan Wave MAD16 Pro (OpTi
82C9xx chipsets)
Media Vision Jazz16
MediaTriX AudioTriX Pro Microsoft Windows
Sound System
MiroSOUND PCM12 Mozart (OAK
OTI−601)
NeoMagic 256AV/256ZX OpTi 82C931 Orchid SW32
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