[linux-audio-user] Hardware compatability

[Noah Roberts]

On 7/2/05, Christoph Eckert <mchristoph.eckert at t-online.de> wrote:
> 
> > Even he agreed that in future more and more people would be
> > using open source music programs. Excellent! I wish I could
> > have pointed him to a hardware compatability list so that
> > when selling his gear to customers he could tell them which
> > could also be used with open source software. Does anyone
> > know of a good list?
> 
> Unfortunately we still have no central point where users get a
> good start about supported hardware and an overview over the
> most important software.
> 
> A wiki would be cool. There's already one at alsa.opensrc.org
> but it's alsa specific.
> 
> Furthermore there's the card matrix at
> 
> http://alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/
> 
> but I do not know how up-to-date it is.

It seems to be VERY out of date.  It is also not very intuitive to
use.  You can't look up products to see if they will work, you have to
know the exact chipset it uses.  Not very useful if you are shopping
for a new card.