-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Sun, 3 Oct 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I would suggest one based on the Trident 4DWave chipset. These things can be > found > for as low as $15, and they are excellent sound cards. Not to mention the > Linux > support is great due to Trident releasing all the necessary specs to the ALSA > people. > I second this. I bought a Trident 4Dwave card from onsale.com for about $18, including shipping. I have never had an easier time setting up a sound card for Linux. It's as simple as going to www.alsa-project.org, downloading the driver source, compiling it, and inserting the modules into the kernel (OK, so I left off the little detail about figuring out the ALSA mixer, but you'd have to do that no matter what card you get). I think it's a very important thing to support companies like Trident that are willing to furnish all the information needed by free software developers to program drivers for their hardware. The one problem I've found with the Trident card is that sound-in quality is poor. Playback is great, but both the mic and line-in ports are quite noisy. I have only used these ports under Linux, but I suspect you'd see the same behavior in other platforms... HTH, noah PGP public key available at http://lynx.dac.neu.edu/home/httpd/n/nmeyerha/mail.html or by 'finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED]' -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBN/kbcYdCcpBjGWoFAQF3GAP+LhsN/jndOod6ha4HrlK6l0BUmD56VQXa 7mqFHVWmu9Imm4lYtETYecUETzs+qJPeO5LwvrZcpEPRmNwRYIK2AM2/mXnmHtIL xf2CVYQcrMYTenOzDc1S6WWgp1RMFWTcY2hkHGOxEyjVFIKrE8jk2UC3MaJZswuG 0kSAH7vsFkI= =VS7A -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
