I use a CHEAP usb sound card adaptor ( 8 EUROS) on one of my old Dell laptops which has no soundcard sucessfully for pskmail/puppy linux.
Rein PA0R >I would be interested to know if Linux even supports these cheap USB sound >devices? I did run Linux in the shack for a while and unfortunately sold one >of the original RigExpert devices because it wasn't usable under Linux and at >the time I though I wouldn't revert back to Windows. But in the end I did as >apart from Fldigi most of the ham software on Linux is second rate compared to >that available for Windows and I got fed up at not being able to try some >newly announced thing that came only in a Windows version. > >Julian, G4ILO > >--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Rik van Riel wrote: >> >> On 08/14/2010 02:15 PM, g4ilo wrote: >> > Well, that isn't my experience. Regardless of the chip set used, it's the >> > entire product including the drivers that will determine the performance. >> > >> > My suspicion is that these devices run at a fixed sampling rate, and that >> > resampling to the rate requested by the software is carried out by the >> > drivers. >> >> Not an issue for me since I run Linux and fldigi. The digital >> mode program fldigi simply gets the audio off the device at one >> of the native sampling rates of the device and does good quality >> sample rate conversion internally. >> >> I believe you if you have seen the Windows drivers for the device >> do a terrible job of sample rate conversion. However, I'm not going >> to experience that issue myself and am quite happy with the device >> in my setup :) >> >> > Personally I don't think it is worth economizing in this area. >> >> That I can agree with. >> >> -- >> All rights reversed. >> > > > > >------------------------------------ > >http://www.obriensweb.com/digispotter.html >Chat, Skeds, and "Spots" all in one (resize to suit) > >Facebook= http://www.facebook.com/pages/digitalradio/123270301037522 > >Yahoo! Groups Links > > >
