Any linux supported sound cards?

pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20552

I'm failing miserably with my ancient AWE32 ISA non PnP sound card

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I can't afford to replace it now, but when I can, are there any companys that support Linux? Creative seems to suck majorly.

vilanox · n00b Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 12 Location: nyc

The SB Live series is compatible. I'm not sure about the new funky top of the line ones, but my sound problems ended when I bought a SB Value card for 30 beans a year or two ago. You should have no problem with the plain low-end ones. Cheaper too. :wink:

Hope that helps.

vilanox

klieber · Posted: Sun May 05, 2002 12:05 pm Post subject:

The SB Live Value card works great. Just use the emu10k driver and all should work. As the other poster mentioned, you can pick these up for a song on ebay or other places.

--kurt
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Guest · Posted: Sun May 05, 2002 5:36 pm Post subject:

santa cruz works aswell...but will cost you more then the live

pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20552

Thanks folks... I'm looking (hoping rather :grin:

) for a sale right now.

Guest · Posted: Mon May 06, 2002 7:13 am Post subject:

just use a cheapo sb pci 16 from like walmart...i think you can get it for 20 bucks

pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20552

Went rummaging i a box of junk. Discovered that I had an old ISA PnP AWE 64, so I'm going to use that.

Thanks

xzibit · n00b Joined: 19 Apr 2002 Posts: 9

yes but without the commerical oss drives you can only get sound out of the 2 front speakers with the turtle beach santa cruz.

FINITE · Guru Joined: 10 May 2002 Posts: 449

Go with the SB Live. These seem to be the most trouble free for people using linux. I can't speek from personal exprience but will be able to soon

pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20552

I'm not a big Creative fan. Looks like there isn't much of a choice though. Which is directly related to my first statement