22 Oct
2002
22 Oct
'02
4:57 p.m.
On Tuesday 22 Oct 2002 17:42, Paul Winkler wrote:
On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 11:14:52AM +0100, Steve Harris
wrote:
I'd much rather have a list of current cards that work _well_ than a lists
of
cards that don't.
The current ALSA card list just says whether or not a card has a driver (and
the state of that driver). It doesn't indicate how well the card is going to
work.
I don't want to have to learn about DSPs and stuff to be able to identify a
_good_ sound card. I've currently got a shortlist for my next machine:
* MidiMan Delta Audiophile 2496 (Envy24)
* VideoLogic SonicFury OEM (CS4360)
* Creative SB PCI 128 (ES1371)
I've read the specs and looked around various review sites. Nothing anywhere
tells me how well they're going to work. Or does it? Am I failing to find
some secret source of information?
All these things just make life _easier_. I want to get on with developing
code, not wondering why my hardware isn't performing. I don't _want_ to have
to learn _that_ part of the system. Because I'll only need to do it once:
when I spec the next machine. (The next time I spec a machine, everything I
found out last time will be out of date.)
-- Peter
I can't answer this properly, but there is
some issue to with mmap mode I
believe. It is a very small number of cards that dont work.
We should compile a list of them, and maybe put it in the JACK FAQ.
--PW