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Ronald.Kohsman at valuecity

Dec 7, 2003, 4:58 PM

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I have had enough of this Intel AC97 on board crap. What sound board do I need to buy the get myself out of this mess? Thanks in advance.

Ron


mythtv at muddysmind

Dec 7, 2003, 5:05 PM

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I'm using the SB Live just fine. No issues installing or getting to run.

On Sun, 2003-12-07 at 18:58, Ronald Kohsman wrote:
> I have had enough of this Intel AC97 on board crap. What sound board do I need to buy the get myself out of this mess? Thanks in advance.
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lists at forevermore

Dec 7, 2003, 5:05 PM

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> I have had enough of this Intel AC97 on board crap. What sound board do I need to buy the get myself out of this mess? Thanks in advance.

Soundblaster Live is still pretty much the de-facto standard for the
stuff my company ships out. it's cheap and good for 95% of uses. Other
than that, the Audigy is a nice platform if you want something a little
more advanced.

-Chris

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peloy at chapus

Dec 7, 2003, 5:37 PM

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"Ronald Kohsman" <Ronald.Kohsman[at]valuecity.com> writes:

> I have had enough of this Intel AC97 on board crap. What sound board
> do I need to buy the get myself out of this mess? Thanks in advance.

I had enough with my Turtle Beach Santa Cruz cs46xx-based sound card, so
I went out yesterday and bought a Sound Blaster Live! 5.1. After a bit
of trouble playing with the zillion controls in alsamixer to make it
work with MythTV, I was able to get it configured, and now it seems to
be working just fine. Recording works great and even AC3 passthrough
works perfectly. The Sound Blaster Live! was $40.

The cs46xx-based card I had before worked for the most part but had two
problems that made me lose my patience: 1) every now and then (like 1
out of 10 times), a recorded show would come with totally metallic
sound, making it very hard to understand anything, and 2) while
advertised to support it, AC3 passthrough did not work with my receiver.

So, don't come out of a nightmare to get into another one, get yourself
a Sound Blaster (the Live! or the Audigy).

Eloy.-


mythtv at muddysmind

Dec 7, 2003, 5:46 PM

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Just a tip on that SB live card, if you recompile your kernel to include
the driver for it instead of using it as a module it only shows the
controls that work.Cuts all that garbage out.

On Sun, 2003-12-07 at 19:37, Eloy A. Paris wrote:
> "Ronald Kohsman" <Ronald.Kohsman[at]valuecity.com> writes:
>
> > I have had enough of this Intel AC97 on board crap. What sound board
> > do I need to buy the get myself out of this mess? Thanks in advance.
>
> I had enough with my Turtle Beach Santa Cruz cs46xx-based sound card, so
> I went out yesterday and bought a Sound Blaster Live! 5.1. After a bit
> of trouble playing with the zillion controls in alsamixer to make it
> work with MythTV, I was able to get it configured, and now it seems to
> be working just fine. Recording works great and even AC3 passthrough
> works perfectly. The Sound Blaster Live! was $40.
>
> The cs46xx-based card I had before worked for the most part but had two
> problems that made me lose my patience: 1) every now and then (like 1
> out of 10 times), a recorded show would come with totally metallic
> sound, making it very hard to understand anything, and 2) while
> advertised to support it, AC3 passthrough did not work with my receiver.
>
> So, don't come out of a nightmare to get into another one, get yourself
> a Sound Blaster (the Live! or the Audigy).
>
> Eloy.-
>
> ______________________________________________________________________
>
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bfoddy at visi

Dec 7, 2003, 9:31 PM

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On Sunday 07 December 2003 06:05 pm, Chris Petersen wrote:
> > I have had enough of this Intel AC97 on board crap. What sound board do I
> > need to buy the get myself out of this mess? Thanks in advance.
>
> Soundblaster Live is still pretty much the de-facto standard for the
> stuff my company ships out. it's cheap and good for 95% of uses. Other
> than that, the Audigy is a nice platform if you want something a little
> more advanced.
>

If you want a no-nonsense cheap card that works fine,
I found the Inland Soundcard PCI-4D wave was easily
setup in Linux and sound quality was decent. I think
around $15 at Microcenter.

Brian

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jay at ransdoc

Dec 8, 2003, 8:32 AM

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Ronald Kohsman writes:

> I have had enough of this Intel AC97 on board crap. What sound board do
> I need to buy the get myself out of this mess? Thanks in advance.
>
> Ron

Hi Ron

I'm using the alsa package from Intel. According to:

http://www.intel.com/support/graphics/linux/audio.htm

you're screwed if you try to use the drivers in the alsa or kernel
distributions for i810. So you can use the info at:

http://support.intel.com/design/motherbd/linux/

...I found that downloading the drivers and docs from this page
made for a pretty straightforward install, and everything works
great. And no need for another sound card.

Make sure that after you build a new kernel and do a 'make modules_install'
that you do a 'make install' in the Intel alsa driver source directory or
your new kernel will be missing some drivers...

HTH
Jay
--
jay[at]ransdoc.com .

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