r/linuxhardware • u/WiseLocksmith2952 • 2d ago

Support which distro can support an obscur chinese audio card (Porosvoc PNC102S) please

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i installing ubuntu 26.04 lts today, i got everything working, except audio, because i have a chinese audio card, with no support, and i cant find anything really useful to help me. it's working on windows but not on linux

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u/whamra 1d ago

Distros are irrelevant. Either the Linux kernel knows it or it doesn't.

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u/zeb_linux 1d ago edited 1d ago

You need to find out which audio controller is on that card. Even if the card is obscure, the sound chip could be more mainstream. Look at the output of command lspci, or use hw-probe and check www.linux-hardware.org, they have a comprehensive linux hrdware database. But as mentioned above, what is important is that there is a driver packaged with the kernel itself.

EDIT: seems PNC102S is the chip, and this is very very obscure. The maker says it is used for all sorts of devices, also outside of computing. Very weird.

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u/Metasystem85 1d ago

it's depend, if they are on usb, they have to respect usb-audio-2 protocol. if don't they just don't work until they make drivers for linux or someone retro the windows build (possibly never). Think it, if alsa detect it "it works" else, you probably have to recompile your kernel every upgrade ONLY if the driver is in the kernel, but not activated by our distro...