what sound card do you use?

Jefklak · l33t Joined: 26 Oct 2003 Posts: 818 Location: Belgium

You could at least set an "Laptop / crapcard" option

I'm on i810_audio.

ed0n · Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2004 2:42 pm Post subject:

I use for a year now a 'Yamaha YMF-724F'

Epyon · l33t Joined: 11 Sep 2003 Posts: 754 Location: NJ, USA

I use a turtle beach santa cruz(cs46xx)

spitzwegerich · Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2004 6:16 pm Post subject:

Terratec EWX 24/96
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Yen · Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2004 7:09 pm Post subject:

I'm looking for a cheap, good by oss/also supported soundcard with hardware sound mixing?
What do you guys recommend?

Jefklak · l33t Joined: 26 Oct 2003 Posts: 818 Location: Belgium

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supenguin · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 28 Jul 2002 Posts: 95

On my system here at work, I just switched to a new box that has integrated audio. Whatever it is, it uses the ES1371 kernel module. Quality is not to huge, as I just listen to mp3's thru headphones all the time. Its just background music while I work.

At home, I've got a box with SB16 ISA and PCI cards. At one point before I started using Gentoo, I was flipping between OS's quite often. I forget which ones but some had issues with PCI SB16, and others were the other way around. Anyway, I still have both in the box, but only using the PCI one currently. Yes, the ISA one still works and sounds great to me!

Both systems have ALSA sound on 2.6 mm sources. Now if I can just get around to getting dmix working.
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shift · Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2004 8:21 pm Post subject:

SB PCI 128 series onboard.

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Lews_Therin · l33t Joined: 03 Oct 2003 Posts: 657 Location: Banned

AC'97 for the desktop, and some odd onboard card for the laptop.

WaterSoul · Apprentice Joined: 31 Jan 2004 Posts: 158

i810_audio and OPTi931 ISA lol

mem7 · Posted: Sat Mar 13, 2004 3:10 am Post subject:

Via ac '97 for me. Was a little cracklely sounding at first, but a little tweeking in the mixer mixed that. If I wasent using this I would be using a SB Pro.
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aethyr · Veteran Joined: 06 Apr 2003 Posts: 1085 Location: NYC

Aureal Vortex 2 with openvortex drivers :)

(someone had to stick up for vortex owners) Yea, the company has been bankrupt for years, but it's still one of my favorite pieces of hardware, probably partially due to nostalgia.

Riftwing · Apprentice Joined: 06 Oct 2002 Posts: 293

SB Audigy here

Parpin · n00b Joined: 15 Mar 2004 Posts: 5

I have a cmipci8737 and it's a highway to hell to make it play two sounds at the same time
If I had to buy a new sound card I wouldn't buy that one again !

[herb] · Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2004 9:59 pm Post subject:

I use the good ol SB Live! Value.

Best bang for your buck, in my opinion.
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asb002 · Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2004 2:45 am Post subject:

Just found a Sound Blaster Live! and some harman/kardon speakers, work much better than my SB16 and cheapo $5 speakers

Oh, and my laptop has a CS4232 onboard sound chip that, as far as I can do, is ONLY supported by kernel drivers (any help with ALSA on that chipset would be appreciated, I need to figure out how to manually specifiy IO Ports, etc)

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G-Style · Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2004 3:17 am Post subject:

ac 97
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oniq · Guru Joined: 02 Sep 2002 Posts: 597 Location: Connecticut

Whatever is in my iBook

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nrl · Guru Joined: 27 Mar 2003 Posts: 446 Location: Glasgow, UK

Mine is built into my motherboard, the sound I get is fine but no doubt someone with "golden ears" would tell me it's a piece of crap, and it probably is. Can't remember what kernal module it uses - it was partly trial and error finding out in the first place.

XiuX · n00b Joined: 22 Jan 2004 Posts: 59 Location: Linux

I use

Spawn of Lovechild · Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2004 4:39 pm Post subject:

emu10k1 - but frankly as long as it's supported under Linux and FreeBSD I don't care much.
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Redeeman · l33t Joined: 25 Sep 2003 Posts: 958 Location: Portugal

yeah, soundblaster has hardware mixing, so no dmix is needed, thats very nice.
myself i have a adi soundmax, which also have hardware mixing, i like that too.

if i should buy, i would choose asus, the realtek card works fine in linux, but cmipci does too.. but i love asus.

charlieg · Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2004 6:01 pm Post subject:

Got me a good, old, reliable Soundblaster 32 AWE. Must be almost a decade old.
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daenan · n00b Joined: 17 Mar 2004 Posts: 8 Location: Indiana, USA

Sound Blaster Audigy 2 here.
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