[wellylug] Wtd: Sound card advice

[Chris Targett]

David Antliff wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 11 Jul 2004, William Hamilton wrote:
> 
>>I am looking to setup a PC for playing music, I am interested in a half
>>decent (nothing too extreme) sound card with good and easy Linux support.
> 
> 
> SBLive 5.1DE suits me fine here. Runs without problems using OSS (2.4) or
> ALSA (2.4 & 2.6 kernels). The driver can mix multiple audio streams so you
> don't get contention problems. Gentoo.org has a good ALSA howto.
> 
> Other brands might be OK too - but I've only had personal experience with
> SBLive, AC97 (that onboard southbridge crap - avoid it IMO), and an ESS
> audiodrive card that was really a SB-PCI64 (not great either).
> 

Agreed, $20 2nd hand SBLive! [value] has great audio quality compared to most 
other chipsets (I could never get anything lower than about 60hz on them AC97 
things), theyre cheap too.