I bought the M-Audio Audiophile 2496 PCI card based upon recommendations on this mailing list several years ago. Some people seem to have it working fine, but despite days of trying to configure it, I have never gotten it to work to it's full potential. If you understand the intricacies of sound in Linux, you probably stand a good chance of getting it to work well. Just don't expect to plug the card in and have everything work. Someday I will take a few weeks and see if I can follow the source code and read all the manuals for everything sound related in Linux. Until then I will just live with the problems. Here's what I have not been able to get to work: Full duplex, Recording in Audacity without introducing clicks into the captured audio, Getting Audacity to play without a few second delay and a bunch of clicks and pops, Getting Baudline to actually generate a tone, Getting xdemorse configured to recognize the sound card and getting various sound applications to actually share the card nicely. I have never even tried the S/PDIF I/O, so don't know if or how well it works. If you do get an Audiophile 2496 and get it working please document what you have done and post it. For me and a few others who don't understand all there is to know about sound in Linux, a how-to on this card would be most welcome. Darrell On Wednesday 26 December 2007 08:19, Chris Stranex wrote: > Take a look at the M-Audio range of PCI cards. > > I think all of them have S/PDIF In and Out and they are supported by > ALSA. The Audiophile range are pretty cheap but good quality (I don't > have one but I've heard they are good) > -- Darrell Bellerive Amateur Radio Stations VA7TO and VE7CLA Grand Forks, British Columbia, Canada -- Darrell Bellerive ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
