Will This Sound Card Work in Debian?

[Mikenell]

I have started using the onboard soundcard on my motherboard, the card is a VIA 686A and it has drivers for red hat and caledra, will i be able to get it to work in Debian?
Thanks
Mikenell

[Unruly]

As long as it's either already supported somehow in the kernel, or you have driver modules, then you should be all set. You could also try using alien to convert them to .deb and see how that goes...

::shrugs:: it could be a crap shoot though, seeing as onboard soundcards are sketchy as is.

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Nathan
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[Mikenell]

I know but when I kept my other one the sound was distorted even though I had disabled the onboard one so I decided to use the onboard one instead especially when I saw it had linux drivers even though they're not for debian.
Mikenell

[compunuts]

Debian should support even with the generic sound card driver. I also have an on-board no name sound chip. Windows said it's Crystal Codec but no chipset to be found on the MB itself. I installed Debian on the other exact same hardware machine and found sound97 Codec support. Although the sound volume seems to be low, I was able to play the music although I have to leave the volume control to maximum. Other than that, it works.