On 05/10/2017 02:40 AM, BogDan Vatra wrote:
Hi,
I'm looking to buy a sound card, does anyone know if the Asus MIO-892 sound card works on linux?
Cheers, BogDan.
Yeah it does, but honestly you're wasting your money (its overpriced) if you buy that you might as well get a regular PCI-e card and stick it in the x4 as you'll be wasting an x16 PCI-e slot if you use asus's silly MIO stuff (you have to install it in slot 1 on the d8/d16) and no other boards have MIO so its stuck on one computer.
Its a crappy realtek chip, so it will work but it won't work well.
If I was you I'd get a used pci-e creative soundblaster x-fi, they have great linux support from the company and the sound is way better than the usual realtek or cmedia chips.
Thanks a lot!
I'll check the available PCI(-e) sound cards out there. I found http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/New-Creative-Sound-Blaster-X-Fi-SB0790-PCI-E-7-1-S... which seems almost the same price as the "new" ones.
BogDan.
2017-05-10 13:23 GMT+03:00 Taiidan@gmx.com Taiidan@gmx.com:
On 05/10/2017 02:40 AM, BogDan Vatra wrote:
Hi,
I'm looking to buy a sound card, does anyone know if the Asus MIO-892 sound card works on linux?
Cheers, BogDan.
Yeah it does, but honestly you're wasting your money (its overpriced) if you buy that you might as well get a regular PCI-e card and stick it in the x4 as you'll be wasting an x16 PCI-e slot if you use asus's silly MIO stuff (you have to install it in slot 1 on the d8/d16) and no other boards have MIO so its stuck on one computer.
Its a crappy realtek chip, so it will work but it won't work well.
If I was you I'd get a used pci-e creative soundblaster x-fi, they have great linux support from the company and the sound is way better than the usual realtek or cmedia chips.
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On 05/10/2017 05:23 AM, Taiidan@gmx.com wrote:
On 05/10/2017 02:40 AM, BogDan Vatra wrote:
Hi,
I'm looking to buy a sound card, does anyone know if the Asus MIO-892 sound card works on linux?
Cheers, BogDan.
Yeah it does, but honestly you're wasting your money (its overpriced) if you buy that you might as well get a regular PCI-e card and stick it in the x4 as you'll be wasting an x16 PCI-e slot if you use asus's silly MIO stuff (you have to install it in slot 1 on the d8/d16) and no other boards have MIO so its stuck on one computer.
Its a crappy realtek chip, so it will work but it won't work well.
If I was you I'd get a used pci-e creative soundblaster x-fi, they have great linux support from the company and the sound is way better than the usual realtek or cmedia chips.
The MIO card does have one advantage -- it doesn't consume a PCIe slot. Slots 1 and 2 are mutually exclusive (the PCIe lanes are switched between them by hardware depending on slot population), so if your system is already fully loaded with PCIe cards and you really need audio the MIO card can be a decent option.
FWIW, the MIO card attaches to the integrated audio device of the SP5100 and simply provides the audio codec needed to interface with the analog domain. Sound quality issues may also be coming from the SP5100, not just the Realtek codec itself.
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On 05/10/2017 02:01 PM, Timothy Pearson wrote:
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On 05/10/2017 05:23 AM, Taiidan@gmx.com wrote:
On 05/10/2017 02:40 AM, BogDan Vatra wrote:
Hi,
I'm looking to buy a sound card, does anyone know if the Asus MIO-892 sound card works on linux?
Cheers, BogDan.
Yeah it does, but honestly you're wasting your money (its overpriced) if you buy that you might as well get a regular PCI-e card and stick it in the x4 as you'll be wasting an x16 PCI-e slot if you use asus's silly MIO stuff (you have to install it in slot 1 on the d8/d16) and no other boards have MIO so its stuck on one computer.
Its a crappy realtek chip, so it will work but it won't work well.
If I was you I'd get a used pci-e creative soundblaster x-fi, they have great linux support from the company and the sound is way better than the usual realtek or cmedia chips.
The MIO card does have one advantage -- it doesn't consume a PCIe slot. Slots 1 and 2 are mutually exclusive (the PCIe lanes are switched between them by hardware depending on slot population), so if your system is already fully loaded with PCIe cards and you really need audio the MIO card can be a decent option.
A better way to describe that is that it doesn't consume the lanes of slot 1 like a pci-e audio device would, right? so you'd have slot 2 as x16 vs x8 with a pci-e card in 1? I will add that to the wiki.
Is gpp config automatic in coreboot or no? from what I can tell I have to change the gpp config settings in bootblock if I want different lane configs. The asus manual says that you can't use all 5 pci-e slots at once, is that true with coreboot.
- Thanks, tim always got that 411!
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