[kwlug-disc] Linux supported sound cards

[Peter Melse]

The USB stick variety. There's a few around the 3$ range on amazon today.

On Sep 1, 2015 7:55 PM, CrankyOldBugger <crankyoldbugger at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Now I never considered an external sound card before.  Are you guys talking about the little USB sticks about the size of thumb drives, or the "set-top" boxes I see on Canada Computers?
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> On Tue, 1 Sep 2015 at 15:11 <peter_melse at gto.net> wrote:
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>> For configuring pulse audio, I highly recommend the program pavucontrol. it's graphical, gives you all the options and just works(ha, really) on most systems.
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>> Subject: Re: [kwlug-disc] Linux supported sound cards
>> Date: Tue, 01 Sep 2015 14:55:52 -0400
>> From: "R. Brent Clements" <rbclemen at gmail.com>
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>> Yes USB options are good. I think there is a 2in 2out (one stereo channel each way) device by behringer that is around 50 bucks now. More than an internal device obviously. I have used one on a Ubuntu laptop a few years ago. Worked immediately tho I had to tell pulseaudio to use it instead of the built in one
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>> Pulseaudio does not replace the need for alsa or OSS (depreciated) drivers. I will definitely spend a few minutes on the layers of sound processing on Linux during my November talk
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>> Brent
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>> Hi everyone...
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>> I just found out the other day that the sound card (Creative Labs Audigy FX) in my dual boot desktop doesn't have Linux drivers (specifically, Ubuntu).  Windows side works fine.  In travelling around Creative Labs' website, I noticed a serious lack of Linux commitment from CL.
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>> Does anyone have experience with any sort of PCI-e sound card that has available Linux drivers?  I value "cheap" over "lots of flashy lights".  And being half deaf, I don't really care for some audiophile-level sound machine, just something that can drive my external speakers reasonably well (the sound card on the motherboard has issues, thus my need for a separate card).
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