Greetings... I am using an HP Pavilion dv4000 laptop for music performance (running Mandriva 2008.1, jack, qsynth, M-audio Axiom 61, Rosegarden, Hydrogen, etc.), but I'm finding that my internal sound card is way too noisy...there is a noticeable hiss and a high-pitched whine (actually, in order to use the laptop at all I have to bypass the ground plug on the power supply. If I plug in the ground, it makes quite an awful buzzing noise).
Is anyone using something like an M-Audio Fast Track or Fast Track Pro as an external sound card? I tried both and couldn't seem to get my laptop to use either of them as the system audio device. It recognized them (lsusb showed them as "midiman") but I couldn't get the sound to come out of them instead of the onboard speakers. ...or does some company make a decent quality external USB sound card that works with linux? I've seen cheap ones in computer stores but have never had a chance to try one out? And, again, how does one configure such a device in Linux? Thanks much. -- There are 10 kinds of people in the world, those who understand binary, and those who don't. _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
