8 Oct
2003
8 Oct
'03
5:24 a.m.
John Bleichert <syborg(a)earthlink.net> wrote:
I'm thinking of buying an M-Audio Revolution for a
gaming PC, I've had
great luck with ALSA and my Delta44 in the studio so I'd like to get
another M-Audio. Is anybody using this card? Does the digital speaker
output work? What's the word on the current state of surround sound in
Linux?
:} About the same as mac or windows... but, you can afford it on linux.
There are lots of capable and nearly so applications:
http://linux-sound.org/
http://linux.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/2000/10/13/oa_intro.html
http://www.oss3d.com/usite/index.html
http://www.openal.org/
http://www.tml.hut.fi/~tilmonen/mustajuuri/
{You can get a motherboard with the ac97 codec for around the same price.}
http://www.linuxhq.com/kernel/v2.4/21/drivers/sound/ac97_codec.c
{...not 24 bit though.}
http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/doc-php/template.php3?company=Midiman&…