Re: [OT] Best sound card for Linux

1999-08-15 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sat, 14 Aug 1999, Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: I'm building another machine for someone and I need to know which sound cards give good perfomance under Linux. I'm thrilled with my new Trident 4D Wave based card. The one I got cost me about $19 including

[OT] Best sound card for Linux

1999-08-14 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
I'm building another machine for someone and I need to know which sound cards give good perfomance under Linux. I used to have a SoundBlaster64 PCI in this machine, but the sound output `broke up' under light CPU or disk activity. I swapped it with a friend for an original SoundBlaster16 ISA card

Re: [OT] Best sound card for Linux

1999-08-14 Thread Sean
I've been incredibly pleased with my Ensonic AudioPCI (es1370). The kernel support for this card is excellent, and it produces nice clean sound. The only drawback is that it doesn't have hardware-based MIDI capabilities. For me, though, this is a non-issue, as I hardly ever listen to MIDI

Re: [OT] Best sound card for Linux

1999-08-14 Thread Steve Gore
On Sat, Aug 14, 1999 at 03:24:38PM -0400, Sean wrote: I've been incredibly pleased with my Ensonic AudioPCI (es1370). The kernel support for this card is excellent, and it produces nice clean sound. The only drawback is that it doesn't have hardware-based MIDI capabilities. For me,