[linux-audio-user] Straight-talking digitally

[Paul]

Anahata wrote:

> The Midiman DiO 2448 seems to be the cheapest sound card with digital
> I/O and I use it with the OSS drivers, paid for, from 4Front
> technologies at http://www.opensound.com. The card has analogue output
> but no analogue inputs at all.
> The Midiman 2496 is more expensive but it may be easier to get drivers
> working on it.

Looking at the ALSA soundcard matrix and associated doco, the 2496
doesn't have SPDIF support yet. However the 2448 (CMI8738 chip) seems
to be well supported by the current drivers (0.9.0rc6).

Cheers,
Paul.
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