[microsound] [gear] Sound card for Linux

[Phil Thomson <philthom@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Can any of the Linux heads on the list recommend a PC sound card that will 
work well with Linux? I put Gentoo on my PC recently, but I'm being 
prevented from doing anything useful with it because of IRQ conflicts with 
the sound card which I'm having trouble resolving (if anyone knows 
anything about this, I'd appreciate any info). I'm using an ens1370 
(Ensoniq AudioPCI ES1370), but Gentoo doesn't seem to want to play with 
it. AGNULA's DeMuDi would freeze instantly when I tried to anything with 
sound. Xandros seemed to work fine with the sound card, but I got turned 
off from Debian's apt when it automagically wiped out KDE when I tried to 
install one tiny little graphics library.

I am so frustrated and tired of 
dealing with Linux hardware issues with every single distro I try, that I 
am willing to buy hardware that will just work in Linux without hours of 
tweaking and twiddling and frustration on my part. If anyone has advice 
for ideal Linux sound cards (and network cards too, as my Dlink DFE-530TX 
has caused some issues on occasion), I'd appreciate it. Reply offlist if 
you want.

Also, does anyone have experience with the CCRMA distro? Is it worth it? 
My ideal is to get Gentoo working for audio, and use that, as I love their 
package management system and some of their other features, but I could be 
talked into using CCRMA if there were definite audio advantages in that 
department.

P


"Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons."
Popular Mechanics, 1949


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