Sound Cards & Drivers

Primary Resources
- 4Front offers commercially available sound drivers for UNIX/Linux
- ALSA advanced Linux sound architecture project
  - AlsaBuild a script to build a preemptive 2.4 kernel with ALSA sound support
  - Kasound Marc Brooker's GUI for defining the ALSA .asoundrc file, requires up-to-date KDE
  - Configuration Pages [Out of date ! Please see the ALSA site for current information]
    - Configuring the SoundBlaster 128 PCI on RedHat 6.0/Linux 2.2.14 with ALSA Drivers a guide from Jason L. Buberel
    - ESS Maestro 2E Linux Driver for ALSA from Matthias Braun
    - Yamaha OPL3-SA2 a guide from James Tappin
  - Contributed Drivers and Patches [Out of date ! Please see the ALSA site for current information]
    - ALSA Software & Patches a list from Steve Ratcliffe
    - Zefiro ZA2 driver from Martin Pahl
- OSS/Free information about the pre-2.5 Linux kernel sound driver
Cards & Chipsets
- AudioScience HPI Drivers now available for Linux
- Aureal Open-source Driver Project keeping Vortex development alive
- CMI8338/8738 Driver official Linux drivers from C-Media
- Crystal Sound CS4232 Configuration for OSS/Free more advice from Steve Crowder
- Echoaudio ALSA Driver a driver for the Gina, Layla, Darla, Mia and Mona cards
- Emagic Audiowerk8 Linux driver a low-level Linux kernel driver and user-space JACK driver from Martijn Sipkema
- ESS18n8
  - ESS1868 Plug and Play Soundcard Brian Miller's page
  - ESS1868 PnP card set-up information from George Dau
- Gravis Ultrasound Project dedicated to improved Linux support for the Gravis soundcards
- HDSP Utilities a mixer, a configurator, and a loader for the RME hardware, from Thomas Charbonnel
- Hollywood Plus/DXR3 Driver kernel drivers for two popular DVD playback cards
- OPTi 82C931-based soundcards info from Donald Burns
- Roland MPU-401 an alternate driver
- SAM9407
  - Dream SAM9407 Driver Project development project for DSP chip used in TerraTec EWS64XL, Guillemot Maxisound, and Hoontech SoundTrack 128 cards
  - SAM9407 kernel module from Gerd Rausch
  - SoundTrack 128 Ruby a report on a Hoontech card built with the SAM9407 and CS4237B chipsets
- SoundBlaster
  - Creative Open Source open-source drivers and other material from Creative Labs
  - Direct SB Patch runs Sound Blaster compatible devices from DOSemu, from Valery Shchedrin
  - SBLive!/Audigy
    - 10K1Box Project very interesting hardware mods for the SBLive
    - Project: Emu10K1 drivers for the SBLive and the new Audigy cards
    - SBLive for Linux an unofficial and very informative page
    - SBLive On Linux FAQ (unofficial) everything you wanted to know...
    - SBLive Setup instructions for compiling the CVS code, from Morganth
  - SFVbm X front-end for creating and manipulating virtual bank files for Creative Labs AWE32/64 soundcards
  - SoundBlaster-16 PnP mini-HOWTO by Eric Z. Ayers
  - SoundBlaster-AWE32/64 Driver Page by Takashi Iwai
  - SoundBlaster-AWE32/64 mini-HOWTO by Marcus Brinkmann
  - SoundBlaster-AWE64/Gold a configuration HOWTO for Linux and OSS/Free, from Steve Crowder
- SRND Linux driver for the miroMEDIA Surround Dolby Pro Logic decoder, includes KDE and XViews GUIs
- Turtle Beach MultiSound/Tahiti/Monterey cards are supported by a package from Markus Mummert
- VIA 82Cxxx Audio Driver from Jeff Garzik
- Via 686A native OSS-compatible driver from Jeff Garzik
- dma sound driver for LinuxPPC software from Iain Sandoe
Laptop Configurations
- Acer Travelmate 722TX Setup For Linux includes essential information on sound setup
- ESS Maestro3/Allegro useful information from Zach Brown
- ESS Maestro Info mail list for users
- HP OmniBook 800 a survey of this notebook computer, includes a mini-HOWTO on setting up its sound support
- IBM ThinkPad
  - Linux sound drivers for the ThinkPad 390e an overview from Allin Cottrell
  - IBM ThinkPad 390e configuring audio and multimedia
  - IBM ThinkPad i1411 a HOWTO for configuring the sound system
  - ThinkPad 390e Allin Cottrell's configuration page
  - ThinkPad i1411 a HOWTO from Patrick Stoddard
- Toshiba Tecra sound a guide for installing Linux on the popular laptop series, with a section on setting up audio support
PC Speaker
- PC Speaker Driver old driver from Humboldt University in Berlin
- PC Speaker Driver Patch from Erik Inge Bolso
PCMCIA Audio/MIDI
- PDAudio-CF high-quality card/software for PDA or laptop, from Core Sound
Serial Port MIDI
- MIDIator serial port MIDI hardware from Key Electronics, with links to UNIX/Linux drivers
- NOTEMIDI kernel module for MIDI output via the RS-232 serial port
- PortMan PC/S Driver new PC serial port MIDI driver from Olivier Delhaye
- Serial Port MIDI a driver from George Hansper
USB Audio/MIDI
- Midiman/Tascam Firmware Loader for MidiSport USB MIDI interfaces and Tascam USB Audio interfaces
- Tascam US-428 Driver a patch for ALSA CVS, adds new driver for the Tascam USB interface controller
- USB-MIDI Driver new code from Nagano Daisuke
- USBUA100 "device driver and console program for the Roland UA-100 USB MIDI/audio desktop music production device...also supports MIDI i/o for the Roland UM-1 USB MIDI adapter, and the Roland SC-8850 MIDI sound module"
Various
- Soundcard Attrition Page Richard Dobson's torture tests: Can your board withstand the challenge ?
- Zoltrix Nightingale S/PDIF a guide to modifying the hardware, from Abhijit Dasgupta
- sounddriver utility to start the proper sound driver (OSS or ALSA)