On 8/27/16, Tracey <traceyanne@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > We may have to buy a decent multi-channel usb sound card, > because of the lack of the pci bus on new motherboards. It may not be needed after all :) AFAIK all PCI slots are connected now to the PCI-E bus with a bridge like the old PCI-ISA bridge and there's no way around it. Based on former reading and experimenting with a desktop graphics card attached to a laptop, I just searched for "external pci slot" and got exactly what I wanted: The PCI-E to PCI bridge and a sort of riser card. That means with the proper adapters or surgery, you could use a 1010 with a notebook. Just 1 lane of a PCI-E 1.0 bus is already faster than the entire shared bandwidth of a classic PCI bus so it's certainly not a problem. YMMV and would probably depend on the quality of that bridge IC. In any case this seems to require yet more delightfully affordable Chinese stuff and yet more testing. -- Rob _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
