HCL:Sound

	Hardware Portal
Full systems	Laptops - Desktops - Servers - Virtual Machines
Components	Bluetooth adapters - Digital cameras - Firewire cards - Floppy drives - Gadgets - IDE + SATA cards - Keyboards - Motherboards - Monitors - Modems - Network adapters (Wired) - Network adapters (Wireless) - Optical media (CD, DVD, Blueray) - Phones, handsets, mobile/cell - Printers - RAID Controllers - Scanners - SCSI adapters - Sound cards - TV cards - UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply) - Video cards - Web cameras

Note that some audio controllers have various audio channels muted by default. You may need to configure the audio channels with the Yast Hardware Audio Configuration tool.

About this list

The "model" column corresponds to the "Model" output from the command

hwinfo --sound

PCI

Vendor	Model	Autodetected	SUSE Release									Comments
			10.0	10.1	10.2	10.3	11.0	11.1	11.2	11.3	12.1
Asonic	CMI8738											Fully working
Asus	Xonar DX PCI Express											11.3: This is a PCI Express x1 card. To install, first turn off any integrated sound card in your bios, then use YAST2 to delete the integrated sound card. Reboot. Nothing else. Do not edit the new sound card to configure it, it will not work, and if you have done this just delete the new sound card and reboot to recover. 5.1 surround tested and works following these instructions. Nothing else tested yet. 12.1: Autodetected and 5.1 sound fully works out of the box
Audiotrak	Audiotrak Hifi											10.3 Works after compiling ALSA 1.0.16
C-Media	CMI8738											Works with no problems
Creative	Audigy 2, Audigy2 Platinum
Creative	Audigy Player/Platinum/Platinum eX
Creative	Audigy SE											5.1 Sound working after manual configuration of /etc/asound.conf or ~/.asoundrc. Autodetected as Audigy LS before 11.2
Creative	Sound Blaster PCI 164V Audio-128
Creative	Sound Blaster Live!											Digital speakers such as Boston Acoustics BA735 are supported, but you must toggle on the Digital/Analog jack for speakers to work.
Creative	Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1											The card has also a game port witch is recognize by the system automatically, tested on Suse 10.0 and above.
Creative	Creative SB X-Fi (Xtreme Gamer)											11.1: Creative beta drivers (XFiDrv_Linux_Public_US_1.00) have been tested and DO work in openSuSE 11.1 (64-bit and 32-bit). 12.1: Works out of the box with latest ALSA, although doesn't have support for certain features (hardware MIDI, EAX 5.0 etc.)
Creative	X-Fi Platinum											You'll need to compile these alsa drivers: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/tiwai/snapshot/alsa-driver-unstable-snapshot.tar.gz
Creative	X-Fi Xtreme Music											Basic sound playback works (11.1 x86_64, drivers from Creative website). Sometimes last sample keeps repeating for some seconds, after playback is stopped.
M-Audio	Delta 44
M-Audio	Revolution 7.1
MS-TECH	LS-5.1 PCI											10.0 without problems. 10.1 and 10.2 untested
Turtle Beach	Santa Cruz											All versions, detected and works with ALSA out of the box.

OnBoard

Vendor	Model	Autodetected	SUSE Release								Comments
			10.0	10.1	10.2	10.3	11.0	11.1	11.2	11.3
AMD	SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) (rev 40)										Tested on Tumbleweed as of 21 July 2015
C-Media	CMI8738
Ensoniq	Giga-Byte 5880 AudioPCI On MotherBoard 60XET
Ensoniq	ES1371 [AudioPCI-97]										CirrusLogic CS4297A Rev 4 on Dell Dimension 2100
Intel	82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio Controller										enable:Line-in,CD,Mic disable:Video(?),Phone,Aux (what for?)
Intel	82801I (ICH9) HD Audio Controller										Every output and input works great! Added 11.0 and 11.1 on Intel DX48BT2 main board.
Intel	Intel® High Definition Audio										Digital(SPDIF Coax/Optical) and Analog Out supported. For Acer Aspire 5315 with chipset ICH8 (found with 'LSPCI') Alsa Driver v 1.0.15 needed.
nVidia Corporation MCP51 AC97	GeForce 6100 M9 model motherboard										Every output and input works great!
NVidia nForce2	NVidia nForce2 with ALC650F on ASUS A7N8X2 Deluxe										Have not tested surround sound
Realtek	Realtek AC'97
Realtek	ALC888 HD										Have not tested surround features;only 2 channels. Also beware if using with a Linuxant driver as they may conflict.
SiS	Elitegroup
SiS	SiS SI7012 (Realtek ALC650F)
VIA Technologies, Inc.	VT1708/A
VIA Technologies, Inc.	VT82C686 AC97
VIA Technologies, Inc.	VT8233 / A / 8235 / 8237 AC97										To enable SPDIF output, in alsamixer, set the volume of the IEC958 Playback item to zero and 'unmute' the IEC958 item

USB

Vendor	Model	Autodetected	SUSE Release										Comments
			10.0	10.1	10.2	10.3	11.0	11.1	11.2	11.3	11.4	12.1
Creative (041e)	SB X-Fi (3042)												Add in YaST with "Sound card vendor: Generic" and "Sound card model: USB Audio". Driver used: snd-usb-audio. Only tested on 11.1. Use ALSA for all options.
Xitel (09ef)	HiFi-Link (2907)												Add in YaST with "Sound card vendor: Generic" and "Sound card model: USB Audio". Driver used: snd-usb-audio. Only tested on 10.0 and 10.3
Creative (041e)	Blaster Connect (3010)												Add in YaST with "Sound card vendor: Generic" and "Sound card model: USB Audio". Driver used: snd-usb-audio. Only tested on 10.3
TBD Vendor	TBD Model												TBD comment
Sweex	SC004V2												Newer ALSA version in 11.2 fixes a bug that exists in 11.1 (if it works in 11.1 as well, might have received an ALSA update, then please update this entry)
Behringer	UCA202												After plug, just works :)
Logitech	Clear Chat												(USB headset) Works like a charm.
Microsoft	LifeChat LX-3000												(USB headset) Works like a charm. Automatically snd-usb-audio module is loaded, You can then see it in Phonom device chooser. When using Skype - works great- tested only on older Skype version, which uses ALSA instead of PulseAudio.
C-Media Electronics (0x0d8c).	USB Multimedia Audio Device (0x0105)												This USB Multimedia Audio Device is integrated in Teufel Concept C 200 USB. It works perfectly :-)