>  I've been trying to make a gus vipermax work with NetBSD, and
> currently the remaining problem is that no sound issues when it
> should.
> ...
>  Is there any hope for this card?

Of course there is, it sounds like it almost works.  But if you want
it to work you either need to do the work yourself or find someone
else with a card like yours to help you.  It's very difficult to try
and debug these things remotely.

        -- Lennart