On 16/12/14 07:02, Thomas Lindroth wrote: > 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 > You might try the ASUS range. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
