On Tuesday 22 Oct 2002 17:42, Paul Winkler wrote: > On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 11:14:52AM +0100, Steve Harris wrote: > > I can't answer this properly, but there is some issue to with mmap mode I > > believe. It is a very small number of cards that dont work. > > We should compile a list of them, and maybe put it in the JACK FAQ. > > --PW I'd much rather have a list of current cards that work _well_ than a lists of cards that don't.
The current ALSA card list just says whether or not a card has a driver (and the state of that driver). It doesn't indicate how well the card is going to work. I don't want to have to learn about DSPs and stuff to be able to identify a _good_ sound card. I've currently got a shortlist for my next machine: * MidiMan Delta Audiophile 2496 (Envy24) * VideoLogic SonicFury OEM (CS4360) * Creative SB PCI 128 (ES1371) I've read the specs and looked around various review sites. Nothing anywhere tells me how well they're going to work. Or does it? Am I failing to find some secret source of information? All these things just make life _easier_. I want to get on with developing code, not wondering why my hardware isn't performing. I don't _want_ to have to learn _that_ part of the system. Because I'll only need to do it once: when I spec the next machine. (The next time I spec a machine, everything I found out last time will be out of date.) -- Peter
