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Need a PCI-E sound card with low profile bracket, optical out, and one of those mini-din connectors that fans out into various analog connectors. Only card I have been able to find so far uses a CM8828 chipset. Looks like that chipset is natively supported by the kernel alsa driver starting in 3.17 kernel but CentOS 7 uses 3.10 kernel. I did not see a package that was obviously for that chipset in elrepo. Has that driver been backported into the RHEL/CentOS 7 kernel, and if not, is it in elr...

Basically I will be needing a low profile PCIe sound card with optical out. There isn't a hell of a lot of selection, seems the assumption is if you need sound it is on the motherboard. That one has PCIe and a low profile bracket, but it uses the C-Media CM8828 chipset. My understanding that chipset is only supported in 3.17+ kernels, CentOS 7 uses 3.10.x A) By any chance, has the been back-ported in CentOS kernel? B) If not, does anyone know of a 3rd party repo that has it as a kernel module built against CentOS kernel? I suspect B is no because it...