Those who are interested in such applications as Internet telephony will not want to do without sound input. When the AC97 audio chip was built into most motherboards, I never thought about it much, for this chip seems to be fully functional with most OS.
When I obtained a newer computer, the Intel HD onboard audio did not seem to work with a microphone in Linux. The SB X-Fi add-on card that came with it did not work at all with Linux until recently, now that Creative has made the driver's source code available. I still haven't heard from anyone who was able to get microphone input in Linux with such a card. The black-and-silver USB "Logitech Desktop Microphone" does work with Linux, and because it is a USB device it does not need a battery. it's not very expensive, so I suppose I would recommend it to someone in a situation similar to mine. By the way, has anyone yet obtained microphone input from one of the X-Fi cards? Robert "Tim" Kopp http://analytic.tripod.com/ _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
