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Would anybody care to suggest an external soundcard for a laptop which works perfectly under Arch.
It doesn't have to be surround or anything flashy, but ideally it would have a decent link method to an amp (digital or analog - preferably not the nasty 3.5mm connectors though!)
Started using Amarok to play my music all the time, but the output jack on this is a bit finicky :-(
Thanks
Daren
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I have the Aureal vortex 2 or whatever. Sound works. But the card is old, and you probably won't find it outside of eBay.
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Thanks for the suggestion... I'll have a look around
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I bougt M-Audio Audiphile USB becouse it was listed on alsa doc. I'll recive it soon so I'll let you know then how it works.
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Thanks a lot.. much appreciated
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As I said before I bougt M-Audio Audiphile USB and I must say it works perfect! You just have to add snd-usb-audio to rc.conf file and, in my case, create asound.conf file:
pcm.!default {
type hw
card 1
}
ctl.!default {
type hw
card 1
}
and modify /etc/modprobe.conf:
#
# /etc/modprobe.conf (for v2.6 kernels)
#
# OSS/Free portion - card #1
# OSS/Free portion - card #2
alias /dev/mixer snd-mixer-oss
alias /dev/dsp snd-pcm-oss
alias /dev/midi snd-seq-oss
# Set this to the correct number of cards.
# --- BEGIN: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. ---
# --- ALSACONF version 1.0.13 ---
# --- END: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit
# --- BEGIN: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. ---
# --- ALSACONF version 1.0.13 ---
alias char-major-116 snd
alias char-major-14 soundcore
alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss
alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel
alias sound-slot-0 snd-hda-intel
alias snd-card-1 snd-usb-audio
alias sound-slot-1 snd-usb-audio
# --- END: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. ---
The quality of the sound is just perfect If the price is not a problem for you go for it!
Cheers
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Thanks very much for the information - very much appreciated. I'm still looking around so I will definately check that one out.
Cheers
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Hi,
Im not quite sure if youre looking for a semi-pro home studio card, or a simple entertainment solution, but I asked the same question on a norwegian forum a few days ago, and a guy reported that the "Terratec Aureon 5.1 USB" card worked plug-n-play on ubuntu 6.10, So i suppose it will also work fine on Arch.
As for a semi-pro card, Ive read that the "Edirol UA-25" is quite nice, and also works out of the box on linux. Suppose Jack setup is a different issue alltogether, since I have no idea on how to do that. Thinking of buying the Edirol UA-25, since Im looking for a nice mobile studio solution.
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Hi,
I am very happy with an m-audio solo
http://www.m-audio.com/products/en_us/F … -main.html
Yes, firewire is a little tricky, but if you get libfreebob
http://freebob.sourceforge.net/index.php/Main_Page
and follow the step by step instructions for Archlinux:
http://freebob.sourceforge.net/index.ph … Arch_Linux
everything runs nice!! (by the way, if you dont have jack it's time to
get it it is the best audio server around!)
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