John Bleichert <syborg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >I'm thinking of buying an M-Audio Revolution for a gaming PC, I've had >great luck with ALSA and my Delta44 in the studio so I'd like to get >another M-Audio. Is anybody using this card? Does the digital speaker >output work? What's the word on the current state of surround sound in >Linux? :} About the same as mac or windows... but, you can afford it on linux. There are lots of capable and nearly so applications: http://linux-sound.org/ http://linux.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/2000/10/13/oa_intro.html http://www.oss3d.com/usite/index.html http://www.openal.org/ http://www.tml.hut.fi/~tilmonen/mustajuuri/ {You can get a motherboard with the ac97 codec for around the same price.} http://www.linuxhq.com/kernel/v2.4/21/drivers/sound/ac97_codec.c {...not 24 bit though.} http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/doc-php/template.php3?company=Midiman&card=Revolution&chip=Envy24HT&module=ice1724
