Drivers that support hardware mixing: * snd_emu10k1 - SB Live! and SB Audigy cards, some E-mu cards. If you want a high quality card, you might look into used 0404 PCI (_new_ revision, old one doesn't work with ALSA), you should be able to get a used one for 60$ since new one is 100$. Also, if you can get E-mu APS, that card is the bomb. And it's really cheap nowadays. * snd_cs46xx - those are really cheap. Driver works quite well. I have TerraTec DMX Xfire 1024, but there were also SiXPack 5.1 and Hercules Fortissimo II and Fortissimo III 7.1. Probably some other. Even Windows drivers are interchangable between these cards, since there is probably just one reference design. * snd_au88x0 - Vortex cards. Have hardware mixing. Driver hasn't been touched for years. Not sure how well it works, as I never tried it. Would love to have one of these cards around, though. You might find some of these cards really cheap.
Not sure about: * snd_ice1712 - I used to have DMX 6fire. I remember being able to play more than one sound at the time, but I don't remember if card had hardware mixing supported by ALSA. Hardware does support it, and it did work on Windows. Please check. Those cards should also be really cheap nowadays, just try to not get something that is ICE1724-based since this is a totally different story. You can check out this table: http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Matrix:Tag-HWMIX 2008/10/26 Anigel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > > I am really tired to fight against old oss-compliant software, and > problems with software mixing got me tired over the past years : I > decided to buy a new card. So, I have several choices : ebay of > course, or get a fresh new card. > > But i am not very competent in such devices, and, before making a bad > choice, I prefer to ask you : which device should I choose ? At the > moment I am using a PCI Audigy LS *and* my integrated AC97 chip. I saw > on ebay devices like SB Live! 5.1, or Audigy 2 ZS. Both seem to be > well-supported in ALSA... And I don't know at all other audio > manufacturers. I only need a well-supported chip, with hardware > mixing. > > So, please, if you have any advice to help me buy a well supported > device (60 $ max), feel free to answer. > > Thanks ;). > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge > Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes > Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world > http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ > _______________________________________________ > Alsa-user mailing list > Alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user > -- Vedran Miletić ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
