On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 20:56, Kirk Strauser wrote: > I'm building a little P5/200 box for my kids to play Reader Rabbit (which > unfortunately runs only under Windows - Wine can't handle it) and am trying > to decide whether to: > > 1) Buy a cheap sound card for it, or > 2) Give them my old ENS1371 from my workstation and upgrade to something > newer. > > I use ALSA for sound. I almost never game, so all I really need is > something that can play back a PCM stream decently. Now, my current card > works reasonably well. Is there anything that upgrading to a newer card > would get me? Better quality? More simultaneous sounds at once? Better > ALSA support with nifty features I can only imagine? > > Any thoughts? Recommendations?
I've always had good like with SB Live Value or OEM. They're reasonably priced ($20-$30) and are very well supported by Linux. I use the standard OSS drivers and I can play as many simultaneous sounds as I want (I haven't really tried pushing it that far, but with my usage I've never had a sound fail to play because the card was in use). The sound quality is excellent as well. I've never tried alsa drivers though. Bijan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]