2007/5/12, Ken Restivo <ken(a)restivo.org>rg>: Yes please becare full with the Ricoh chips, specially if you want a firewire soundcard ! somes work but other like mine, doesn't work at all !!! :-( (I run on a Dell inspiron 9400) Erwan -- {^_^} Mysth-R {^_^} http://mysthr.oldiblog.com

Lars Luthman escribe: I am using a not-state-of-the-art Samsung X05 laptop which features an S/PDIF out. I use an optical cable to a minidisc unit with headphones attached and I use this as "the soundcard", as it gives a far greater quality than the headphone out in the laptop. Jackd attaches to the S/PDIF out nicely and quality of audio apps is very impressive given that laptops usually ship with awful soundcards. I tend to prefer musical hardware as quality of audio outs is usually a lot higher than using the 95% of soundcards in the market. But this S/PDIF plus minidisc combo makes my day. Staying digital as long as posible is worth it. If using a laptop without S/PDIF, an M-Audio Transit seems to have all is needed. Cordially, Ismael -- Ismael Valladolid Torres m. +34679156321 La media hostia j. ivalladt(a)gmail.com http://lamediahostia.blogspot.com/

El Sábado, 12 de Mayo de 2007 19:22, Ken Restivo escribió: | On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 05:09:51PM +0200, Lars Luthman wrote: | > I'm thinking about getting a laptop, and of course I want one that I can | > run jackd and friends on with reasonable performance. I really don't | > know much about hardware in general and laptops in particular, so I was | > wondering if anyone had any advice. This is what I'm looking for: | > | > * Mainboard / sound / CPU etc working well with recent RT-patched | > kernels. | > | > * S/PDIF out, at least 16 bits, 48kHz, stereo. Inputs are not | > important, ADC/DAC quality is not important. | > | > * DVD+-RW burner. | > | > * jackd running without xruns with ~10ms latency (when using S/PDIF | > out at 48kHz). | > | > * Room for plenty of RAM (at least 2 GB). | > | > * Not too expensive ( < 1000???). | > | > Any suggestions? | | Don't get the one I have (ASUS Z96F). It's a nice machine, | easily-expandable, and it was a great price, but the interrupt routing | really sucks for audio: way too many shared interrupts. Most of the Intel | Core 2 Duo "Napa" based motherboards (i.e. Mac Mini) seem to have similar | interrupt-sharing limitations. They also have the miserable hda-intel | sound chip. | | If I had to buy a laptop again, I'd bring a Linux livecd into a computer | shop or discount store, and walk around trying every single goddamned | machine there, doing "cat /proc/interrupts" and "lspci" on every one, and | buy the one that doesn't have brain-dead shared interrupts or unsupported | (Ricoh) chips. | | I wish there were an online database of /proc/interrupts, lspci, and | dmiinfo output for all laptops. That idea is a good one. Into Musix we have only a few... /root/Mis_Documentos_GNU-Linux/otros-textos/hardware-compatible/ Regards, | -ken | _______________________________________________ | Linux-audio-user mailing list | Linux-audio-user(a)lists.linuxaudio.org | http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/linux-audio-user -- `&' # Marcos Guglielmetti # Musix GNU+Linux, 100% Software Libre _#_ http://www.musix.org.ar/en (#) / O \ + archivos: ftp://musix.ourproject.org/pub/musix/ ( === ) Ecología: http://autosus.wordpress.com/ `---'