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PCI Sound Card Recommendations for Linux?

Posted by Cliff on from the here-we-go-again dept.

Yet Another Anonymous Coward asks: "The most recent "Ask Slashdot" about sound cards is over a year old and pople were suggesting SB16 and AWE, then. Now, I think it's time to move to PCI sound cards. Which ones do you all recommend."

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  1. Trident 4D Wave NX by Eric+Sharkey · · Score: 3

    I think, from what I've read, the best buy for general use today are those cards based on the Trident 4D Wave NX chipset.

    They're relatively inexpensive, have fancy features like digital output, are well supported under Linux, and are produced by a company which has not only released full technical documentation for these cards (without any silly NDA's), but fully GPL'd Linux drivers have been written and released by Trident themselves. You can't ask for much more than that.

    Check out those made by Hoontech for example.

    See John Fulmer's lengthy review.

  2. Re:SB Live by kcarnold · · Score: 3
    FYI: If anyone following this is too lazy to find the site themselves (and all too many of us are), the website in question is http://developer.soundblaster.com/linux .

    Kenneth Arnold