Lennart Poettering <lennart <at> poettering.net> writes: > > The drivers for the newer Creative sound cards (such as your Audigy) > are incomplete. More particularly their timing querying is broken > which might cause drop outs during playback. OK. Are the drivers here shared by PA, ALSA, OSS, etc., or do each of them have their own? > Creative is very uncooperative to Linux developers. Don't buy > Creative. If you did than it is your own fault that things don't work > as intended. I generally make it a point to support Linux-friendly companies. Thank you for letting me know about Creative. But "it is your own fault" sounds a little harsh, to be honest. > Also, why buy a Creative Sound Card anyway? Onboard sound cards are > very capable these days. No need to replace them unless you fancy gold cables. No, no need for gold cables. My mobo has a Realtek ALC655 6-Channel AC97 chipset. Is that well-supported?
