Consolidating some of your video capture slots with something like this: http://www.icpamerica.com/products/accessories/IVC/IVC_200G.html
Then get a PCI soundcard that is known to work with the latest ALSA. I recommend a Soundblaster 512 PCI. I have not had luck with the Audigy cards at all. I would try configuring and testing audio without other devices in the computer. Other devices might be interfering with the audio or making your motherboard squirrelly. Cheers. John Hodrien wrote: > I've had this problem before, and managed to escape it through upgrading > ALSA > and friends. But now it's back again, on a machine that's caused me > nothing > but grief so far. > > Initially I was trying to use an onboard SB Audigy 24bit with ALSA. Sadly > recording is not supported. Then I tried OSS, but despite claiming support > for recording, it doesn't work. > > So I've bought a Terratec USB 5.1 MkII card (all PCI slots are used by > capture > cards) which uses the generic snd-usb-audio driver. Using ALSA rat > leaves me > shafted, as it doesn't even start up with a failed assertion. I might > poke at > this later although I suspect this is a painful road. > > Using OSS rat with ALSA (using OSS emulation) works, and recording works > perfectly. Playback however is shoddy, with it sounding warbled. As > far as I > can gather it's trying to repair the audio (as it sound different with > different repair schemes) but there's no packet loss. If I add > redundancy to > the stream, the audio sounds fine, as does it if I drop to 8kHz. > > Neither of these are a solution though. Anyone got any suggestions as > to how > to fix this? > > jh > -- Gavin W. Burris aka 86 Senior Systems Programmer Penn State Visualization Group http://viz.aset.psu.edu/ga5in
