On Mon, 2006-11-13 at 21:54 +1100, Amos Shapira wrote: > On 13/11/06, Moshe Gorohovsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi linux-il subscribers. > > Can you recommend a PCI sound card that is currently available > in Israel and works well with both linux (with ALSA drivers in > linux > kernel 2.6.5 till current 2.6.18) and windows (win2000 / > winXP) ? > > Can't tell about Windows but I have a "Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 > (rev 0a)" which worked "out of the box" with Debian Etch
Creative's EMU range is very good that way - Creative has donated the driver to the community a while back and it has since then enjoyed very good support in Linux. It helps that its a really good hardware implementation and the software is not much more then a set of software interfaces over that. > available in Israel but I'd recommend you to look also in > alsa-project.org - it has an excellent compatibility database Yes, but make sure that you read carefully the name of the chipset on the card that you intend to buy, and compare that: cheap off the shelf sound cards are usually brandless boards that use one of just a few cheaply available chipsets. I also recommend to upgrade your kernel - the newer kernels work with newer ALSA drivers, and latest ALSAs have much better functionality and stability then older versions (0.9 for kernel 2.6.5, IIRC ?) -- Oded ::.. Children seldom misquote you. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said. ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
