12. Sound cards

12.1 Supported

• 6850 UART MIDI
• Adlib (OPL2)
• Audio Excell DSP16
• Aztech Sound Galaxy NX Pro
• Crystal CS4232/CS4236 (PnP) based cards
• ECHO-PSS cards (Orchid SoundWave32, Cardinal DSP16)
• Ensoniq SoundScape
• Gravis Ultrasound
• Gravis Ultrasound 16-bit sampling daughterboard
• Gravis Ultrasound MAX
• Gravis Ultrasound ACE (No MIDI port and audio recording)
• Gravis Ultrasound PnP (with RAM)
• Logitech SoundMan Games (SBPro, 44kHz stereo support)
• Logitech SoundMan Wave (Jazz16/OPL4)
• Logitech SoundMan 16 (PAS-16 compatible)
• MediaTriX AudioTriX Pro
• Media Vision Premium 3D (Jazz16)
• Media Vision Pro Sonic 16 (Jazz)
• Media Vision Pro Audio Spectrum 16
• Media Vision Pro Audio Studio 16
• Microsoft Sound System (AD1848)
• OAK OTI-601D cards (Mozart)
• OPTi 82C924/82C925 cards. Use the MSS driver and the isapnp tools
• OPTi 82C928/82C929 cards (MAD16/MAD16 Pro/ISP16/Mozart)
• OPTi 82C931 cards. See http://oto.dyn.ml.org/~drees/opti931.html
• Sound Blaster
• Sound Blaster Pro
• Sound Blaster 16
• Sound Blaster 32/64/AWE (Configure like Sound Blaster 16)
• Sound Blaster AWE63/Gold and 16/32/AWE PnP cards need to be activated using isapnptools
• Turtle Beach Wavefront cards (Maui, Tropez)
• Wave Blaster (and other daughterboards)
• Cards based on the ESS Technologies AudioDrive chips (688, 1688)

• AWE32/64 supports is started in kernel series 2.1.x (check the SoundBlaster AWE mini-HOWTO by Marcus Brinkmann for installation details)
• MPU-401 MIDI

12.2 Others

• MPU-401 MIDI (intelligent mode)
  ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/kernel/sound/mpu401-0.2.tar.gz
• PC speaker / Parallel port DAC
  ftp://ftp.informatik.hu-berlin.de/pub/os/linux/hu-sound/
• Turtle Beach MultiSound/Tahiti/Monterey
  ftp://ftp.cs.colorado.edu/users/mccreary/archive/tbeach/multisound/

12.3 Unsupported

The ASP chip on Sound Blaster 16 series is not supported. AWE32's onboard E-mu MIDI synthesizer is not supported.

Nathan Laredo < laredo@gnu.ai.mit.edu> is willing to write AWE32 drivers if you send him a complimentary card. He is also willing to write drivers for almost any hardware if you send him free samples of your hardware.

Sound Blaster 16's with DSP 4.11 and 4.12 have a hardware bug that causes hung/stuck notes when playing MIDI and digital audio at the same time. The problem can happen with either Wave Blaster daughterboards or MIDI devices attached to the MIDI port. There is no known fix.