Hi,
For those of you on linux using Alsa with rat, can you tell me which sound
cards you're using successfully recently?
I've had problems with a couple cards so far, and would like to try one
that someone else is using, preferably with the Alsa driver instead of
the OSS compatibility driver, but anything that works (without the line-in
playback issues) would be great. Someone mentioned that the Sound blaster
live should work -- are there any others I can try before buying one of
those to try it?
Here are my experiences so far with two cards:
es1370 for the sound blaster pci 128 (model CT4700):
alsa driver fails on an assertion when running.
rat-4.2.22-media: simple.c:1412: snd_mixer_selem_has_playback_volume:
Assertion `elem' failed.
OSS driver plays correctly but rat often resets the line-input playback
to on (i.e. when the volume is changed)
intel8x0 integrated audio:
alsa driver sounds mechanical and seems to be playing back a little too
slowly.
oss driver has the same line-input playback problem as the other card.
I'm testing with rat from both Doug's and Steve's recent packages and the
results are the same. I've also built rat from UCL's cvs, but rat only
sees the OSS device and not the Alsa device, so I'm probably missing
something when building.
I wouldn't mind helping fix some of these issues, but in the meantime I
hope to find an already working soundcard for our production node so we
don't have to keep running a script to fix the line-input playback
setting.
Thanks for any help,
Eric
