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CMI8768/8768+ Xear 3D Audio Driver
User Manual Rev. 1.0
3. Installing H/W, S/W, and Speakers
3.1 Audio Hardware
The C-Media audio driver is designed to support the following
C-Media audio chips:
1. (PCI 8ch audio chips with Dolby
®
Digital Live
encoder)
2. CMI8768 (PCI 8ch audio chips without Dolby
®
Digital Live
encoder)
PS. The “+” version chips mean Dolby Digital Live encoder is
included.
If you bought a sound card using C-Media PCI audio chip, you
should install your sound card to the PCI slot on your
motherboard when power-off first.
After that, you can continue to
install the audio driver/software. If you bought a motherboard or a
system with a C-Media audio chip on board, you don’t have to do
any audio hardware setup.
3.2 Audio Software
Just put the support/driver CD into your CD-ROM/DVD-ROM to
install the C-Media audio driver/software via the installation
program. (Please also refer to the Guide from the product
manufacturer.)
If your system use Windows
®
ME, you have to
install DirectX 9.0 or post version (from the website below) to
support 7.1 channel surround sound normally.
(
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=141d5f9e-07c1-462a-baef-5
eab5c851cf5&displaylang=en
)
