On February 21, 2004 02:39 am, Frank Barknecht wrote: > In general, all devices supported on 2.4 also work on 2.6. At least > that's what I found in my tests. Sound-support is more a matter of > alsa-drivers, and ALSA can be used on 2.4 and 2.6. Exceptions to this > rule are the two M-Audio device, which don't work anymore on 2.6 > because of the known standards issue.
As a followup to my initial whining / counter statements, today I went and picked up the Creative Labs Soundblaster MP3+ (cheap) and after figuring out that I needed to compile the kernel without audio support under USB (but with ALSA USB support enabled) I am now able to play and record with the 2.6.3 kernel, Arts and KDE 3.2 (noatun is churning through MP3s as I type). Fscking eh! No major stress tests yet so I will have to see how it goes after a few days of normal music listening / recording but so far so good. Arts had horrible sound initially but tracked that down to the default dettings in alsamixer being a little less than optimal (line in disabled, master very low but not off). A couple of tweaks there and now my Behringer Truths are happily blaring industrial music again. =) Thanks for the suggestion Frank and now I can finally get back to recording my own music (and listing my middle finger to standards M-Audio Audiophile USB on ebay). Cheers -- ---> (culture) http://industrial.org : (label) http://deterrent.net ---> (community) http://ampfea.org : (hire me) http://codegrunt.com ---> (send EEEI news to) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---> Whomever dies with the most URLs wins!!!!!!!!!!!!! ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net is sponsored by: Speed Start Your Linux Apps Now. Build and deploy apps & Web services for Linux with a free DVD software kit from IBM. Click Now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1356&alloc_id=3438&op=click _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
