I have a Zepto Nox A14 laptop, S/PDIF with mini-TOSlink connector. This laptop is not really a "cheapish" laptop, but it meets other requirements (14", S/PDIF). Too bad the company gone bankrupt some months ago. I never tried to discover if it's really working, but the red light can be enabled or disabled at will and there's an alsa device so I think it works. (It takes priority over the HDMI output so no HDMI sound for me :/. I don't know if alsa fully supports cards with HDMI + S/PDIF) On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 10:46, <ceverett@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'd like to buy a new laptop with a 13" screen that supports digital > audio output via S/PDIF or TOSlink. > > I don't want to deal with the endless hours of fiddling with a real > time kernel and jack audio, so firewire is out until ALSA directly > supports it. I don't want to carry a box around to break out the > audio from the HDMI port, it's one more thing to lose. And I don't > want my files down sampled to 48k x 16 bits for standard USB audio > (not to mention USB audio just doesn't sound right to my ears). > > I just want to send my 96k x 24bit audio files directly to a DAC > with the least possible fuss. If there was an ExpressCard/34 sound > card with S/PDIF supported by ALSA, I would buy it in a second. > > If you own a cheapish laptop 13 to 14 inch laptop, and have working > S/PDIF or TOSLink output, please would you let me and the rest of > the world know? > > Christopher > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Alsa-user mailing list > Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user > -- Damien Thebault ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
