I'm trying to find a new soundcard but I'm having problems finding the information I need. I recently got a new system and I can't use my old sound blaster live value anymore because there is no PCI slots on the new mobo. There is an integrated sound blaster Z / Recon3D / ca0132 chip on the mobo but the kernel support is so bad I can't use it. I need a card with good alsa support. I don't want any kernel oops, failure to suspend, need to power cycle the machine, playing around with hda-analyzer or any of the other problems I have with the ca0132. I need line-in and want the line-in to be hard wired to the outputs so I don't have to use alsaloop. I also need hardware volume support on the line-in and the outputs because alsa's softvol is buggy and horrible. I also want sound quality as good as or better than my old sound blaster live. I use Sennheiser HD 650 headphones. I also don't want to pay more than $200. Optional requirements are optical digital in. It would be nice if that could also be wired to the outputs directly but I guess that's not how digital in works. External soundcards would also be nice so I could move the card easily. Using a popular price comparison site with the parameters above I get 8 internal cards and 4 external. Most of the internal cards are soundblaster Z based and can't be used. What I'm left with is a Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio PCI Express and a TerraTec Aureon 7.1 PCIe. Do they work? The alsa wiki says that the X-Fi Xtreme is not supported but various other sites say it is. The external soundcards are a Sound Blaster X-Fi HD and some cheap junk for laptops. The X-Fi HD does not appear to have hardware volume so I can't use it. If I scrap the optical digital in requirement are there any other cards? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration & more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=164703151&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
