External soundcard advise sought!

Daren · 2006-12-22 13:56:15

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

skale · 2007-01-01 05:41:45

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.

Daren · 2007-01-04 15:04:01

Thanks for the suggestion... I'll have a look around

newgargamel · 2007-01-04 17:26:37

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.

Daren · 2007-01-09 00:00:53

Thanks a lot.. much appreciated

newgargamel · 2007-01-21 17:14:47

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

Daren · 2007-01-22 20:32:50

Thanks very much for the information - very much appreciated. I'm still looking around so I will definately check that one out.

Cheers

krigun · 2007-01-25 21:35:29

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.

mcekk · 2007-02-08 14:51:15

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!)

Arch Linux

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