[linux-audio-user] Centrino Duo and AD1981HD Sound Card: Good for Linux Audio?

[Alberto Botti]

Il giorno ven, 25/08/2006 alle 17.51 +0200, Clemens Ladisch ha scritto:
> Spencer Russell wrote:
> > On 8/24/06, Clemens Ladisch <cladisch at fastmail.net> wrote:
> > > Spencer Russell wrote:
> > > > One of the reasons I've been looking to replace my current laptop is
> > > > that the sound card and video card seem to compete for control of
> > > > whichever bus they're on, so I get lots of xruns with any latency less
> > > > than about 60ms.
> > >
> > > What chipset did your old laptop have?
> > 
> > VIA ProSavage KN133
> 
> Yeah, that one is one of the worse chipsets.

I've used a similar notebook with the same chipset (a Compaq built in
2002) for a number of years for light audio work (live sets with GDAM
and terminatorX), surely a cheap machine (useful as a small heater when
running at full frequency) with a crappy chassis, but reliable and with
a good driver support under Linux...