Re: [Alsa-user] Affordable USB soundards - recommendations?

2006-08-15 Thread Martin Reitbauer
thanks everybody for your suggestions -- i went with a far cheaper option, however. i bought a pre-owned Speed-Link USB Soundcard for €8 on eBay. The manufacturer is german, i think, and supposedly it's got some C-Media chip inside. i'll report back once i've tested the thing (and i'll reconsider

[Alsa-user] Affordable USB soundards - recommendations?

2006-08-10 Thread Martin Reitbauer
Hi, Can anybody recommend an affordable USB soundcard that works well with ALSA? I read on alsa-project.org/alsa-doc that " All USB devices that are standards compliant will work." -- is that really the case? So I can just get ANY mainstream USB soundcard and it'll (most probably) work? The

[Alsa-user] error compiling alsa-lib

2006-08-09 Thread Martin Reitbauer
hello, when i try to compile the alsa-lib package from the hg-repository with the ./hgcompile script, i get the following error: libtool: link: `cards.lo' is not a valid libtool object make[2]: *** [libcontrol.la] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/martin/Drivers/alsa-hg/alsa-lib/src/con

[Alsa-user] loading/unloading modules

2006-08-03 Thread Martin Reitbauer
hi there, support for my sound chip is currently under development, which means i will have to compile new versions of alsa for testing purposes. my question is, how do i properly upgrade to a new version of alsa? up to now i proceeded like follows. 1. i downloaded the latest version of alsa-d