Thanks for all your help. I will go with Alsa then packaged with debian live.
Cheers On 3 Aug 2015 09:49, "Michal Suchanek" <hramr...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 3 August 2015 at 09:32, Robert Spiteri <rspiter...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Thanks for your reply. > > > > What I mean is a distribution that supports most modern sound hardware. > Is > > Alsa enough please? > > Alsa should be enough on most hardware, especially add-on cards. > > Onboard cards are a different matter. They have often wrong/incomplete > connector tables and workarounds in Alsa and OSS give different degree > of success when using those. > > HTH > > Michal >