[olug] Sound card suggestions

[Jon Larsen]

I will always keep my SB Live (emu10k1) in my system.  It's the best 
Soundcard I've ever had for Linux.  Most SB Live, Audigy, Audigy 2 and 
Audigy 4 are all supported in Alsa.  The SB Live value will also work, but 
it does not the same chipset as the SB Live and I didn't have a good 
experience with it.

On another note, Creative has announced non-free drivers for the X-Fi:

April 30, 2007 -- Creative plans to make proprietary (closed source) 
drivers available for the X-Fi series of sound cards. SEE  Soundcard 
Support for updated details. These drivers should have full support for 
ALSA (playback, recording, mixer, MIDI, synthesis) and OpenAL 1.1 (with 
EAX effects).

>From http://opensource.creative.com

On Thu, 24 May 2007, Bill Brush wrote:

> Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 11:13:02 -0500
> From: Bill Brush <bbrush at gmail.com>
> Reply-To: Omaha Linux User Group <olug at olug.org>
> To: Omaha Linux User Group <olug at olug.org>
> Subject: [olug] Sound card suggestions
> 
> Hello everyone.
> 
> I recently upgraded my home computer from one that had died to a Dell
> XPS 710.  I'm very happy with it except that it came with a Sound
> Blaster X-Fi sound card which is not supported in any way, shape or
> form by Linux.  For now I've slapped a SB Live! in it and it's working
> fine, but I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions for a "good"
> sound card for Linux.  (for under $150)
> 
> I've got a nice set of 6.1 dolby speakers and It would be cool to hear
> some high-quality sound out of them.
> 
> Thanks!
> Bill
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