On Thu, 18 Jan 2007, Dobes Vandermeer wrote: > Since I'm having so much trouble getting alsa to work with hda-intel, > I'm considering trying an external option. However, I'd rather not > buy one just to discover that it doesn't work with alsa, either. > > All I'm going to do is connect it to my receiver using an optical > connector, so it doesn't need a good DAC, connectors, or anything. I > just want it to work "no hassles" with alsa and do the SP/DIF output. > Although, whether any sound card works "no hassles" with alsa I have > yet to see, but so far I've been using emu10k1 and hda-intel both of > which are known to have problems working with alsa. OK, Do you really need the SP/DIF output? I use the maudio tranist. It used to have problems but now it works well, but I have only ever used it with the analog output. It is a very cheap (<$100) card with very good performance at least in the 16 bit arena (it basically has quantization noise-- or to be completely fair, maybe 3dB above quantization noise floor). It is a minimal card-- one input aone output. It does have an spdif output, but I have never used it so have no idea if it works or what the problems are. It is usb card, so it has a limitation ( eg you cannot record and play at the same time at 96K) in bandwidth. > > Any recommendations? > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > Alsa-user mailing list > Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user > -- William G. Unruh | Canadian Institute for| Tel: +1(604)822-3273 Physics&Astronomy | Advanced Research | Fax: +1(604)822-5324 UBC, Vancouver,BC | Program in Cosmology | unruh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Canada V6T 1Z1 | and Gravity | www.theory.physics.ubc.ca/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
