[TriLUG] decent cheap soundcard

[William Sutton]

I have an older SBLive card that I'd be happy to part with for a nominal 
fee and s+h (I live in AL), if you're interested.  SBLive has emu10k1 
support in most modern kernels and sounds pretty decent, IMHO (I have 3 of 
them).

zip code is 35802 if you want to calculate s+h and make an offer ($10 plus 
s+h seems reasonable to me)

William


On Tue, 24 May 2005, Ryan Wheaton wrote:

> Hey all,
> 
> I'm looking for a decent and cheap (sub $30) sound card that is well 
> supported under linux.  I used to have a ton of old SB16 cards lying 
> around, but gave them all away about a year ago.  I want to listen to 
> internet radio here at work (http://www.kexp.org rocks btw), and my 
> current linux desktop doesn't have any sound. 
> This morning I stopped by compusa to check out what they had and bought 
> an el-cheapo compusa brand that they had for 19.99.  It's a ALS4000 
> chipset and I got it running with some ALSA drivers...It _works_ but it 
> sounds really crappy and skips a lot (any time I do ANYTHING in X 
> there's a little hiccup).  This makes me think that either the HW is 
> crap or the driver support isn't all that.  I also saw a SB Live! 24bit 
> at compusa for $30, but didn't find and documentation that says that 
> it's well supported either.  So, any and all suggestions are welcome...
> 
> thanks,
> 
> -rtw
>