FWIW, I have two USB audio adapters that don't work under Suse 11.1. One is the Griffin Imic. Both work under windows. The other usb is device I got can be found on ebay if you do a search for "USB 6 Channel 5.1 PCI External Sound Card PC Laptop A14". This link might work http://tinyurl.com/b9sz9h This knockoff works pretty well. It is also easier to hack since you take off 4 screws and the PCB is "liberated", i.e. it slides out of the metal case. The Griffin Imic is kind of plasticty. Both are sold "specless", though the Chinese knock off uses a CMedia chip. If you really care, I can dig up the datasheet, which at least has specs on the chip. I got the Chinese knockoff based on testing done by someone on sci.engineering.design. It is relatively spur free, so some use it for data acquisition. You should realize though that most soundcards are not nearly 16 bits in quality, let alone 24 bits. It's all marketing. If you could find a product with one of the Crystal Semicondutor chipsets, it would certainly be better. I was just using mine for communications signal processing, so the 80db that the Chinese knockoff achieves is fine, and actually a pretty good spec for a specless part. The one thing I don't like about the Imic is the thin USB cable. The whole thing looks very easy to break. The Chinese knockoff has a mini usb jack on the back. I've had good luck with CMedia chipsets under linux, so I was bummed that I couldn't get it to work. However, I can't get the Griffin Imic to work either, which everyone claims does work under linux. peasthope@xxxxxxx wrote: > ... range in price from a few dollars on eBay > to about $50 for a genuine Griffin iMic. > > Can anyone comment about support in Linux? > Will all of these devices yield sound in and out? > > Is the price of the Griffin consistent with sound quality? > > Thanks, ... Peter E. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
