[wellylug] Wtd: Sound card advice

William Hamilton william at thevirtual.co.nz
Tue Jul 13 10:23:25 NZST 2004


Chris Targett wrote:

> 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.
> 
> 


Thanks, I will keep my eyes peeled for a couple of SB Live cards.

W

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