[linux-audio-user] audiophile 2496 - spdif in

[jordan muscott]

Rick Taylor wrote:

>>Rick Taylor wrote:
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>>>jordan muscott <morsecode at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
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>>>>Thanks for that.... but I've just discovered that ecasound records 
>>>>without any of the problems I was experiencing with arecord, so I'll 
>>>>save your advice for when/if I get any other related problems :)
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>>>>Oh btw, I did use Mandrake, and briefly Redhat for about 18 months 
>>>>before I switched to Slackware, and to be honest I prefer Slackware... I 
>>>>haven't had that much trouble setting things up how I want, ok 
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>>>Aside from your peripherals.
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>>Would this really be any easier with another distro? Bearing in mind 
>>that all I've tried so far with Slackware is swapping the slots which my 
>>sound card and ethernet card are plugged into, and now things seem to 
>>work with ecasound anyway ( i did  another thread in the archives that 
>>said that arecord is only intended as a demo app and shouldn't be relied 
>>on for serious work, which would explain why it gave me problems.)
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> I've not had any problems with redhat or debian setting up the pci stuff
>properly.
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> It's up to you I suppose.
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Ok to be honest I'm not gonna switch distros...... but are you saying 
that Redhat offers you extra software that allows you to change the IRQs 
that your pci cards are on?