Jack and SB-awe soundcard

[Gary Ball]

Thanks for your help! This Ubuntustudio User help is a great community
Although it looks as if I'm going shopping for a new soundcard today.  
I'm a graphic designer, so the sound mixing element of my day isn't  
huge.
But that's about half of what this flavour of Linux is supposed to  
excel in right? Who knows, maybe a career change as a DJ in a  
nightclub is in order?
I'll keep you posted.

Thanks again,

Gary Ball

On 15-Mar-08, at 11:34 AM, D. Michael McIntyre wrote:

> On Friday 14 March 2008, Gary Ball wrote:
>> * Starting TiMidity++ ALSA midi
>> emulation...                            [fail]
>
> Hard to say why this is, but it looks like either the snd-seq-midi  
> module
> isn't loading, or maybe it's a problem like JACK is having.
>
>> Sorry. The audio interface "hw:0" doesn't support any of the hardware
>> sample formats that JACK's alsa-driver can use.
>
> That's a weird one, and doesn't look encouraging.
>
>> This is my system hardware. it's old, but so am I.
>
> I don't even see a soundcard listed here.  I eliminated things that  
> weren't
> soundcards until the list was gone.  Your subject line says "SB-awe
> soundcard."  Just what do you have in here?  I would guess perhaps  
> you have
> an old ISA AWE-32 in there.  Is that right?  That would make sense,  
> since
> that's not a PCI card, and it didn't show up in a list of PCI devices.
>
> If it really is an ISA card, the short story is please move along.   
> In fact,
> let's just move along no matter what, because it doesn't sound like  
> this card
> could be worth any struggle.  No use putting a lot of effort into  
> getting
> unsatisfactory results.
>
>> Could it be the sound card is too old? If so, can anyone recommend a
>> linux friendly alternative.
>
> Almost anything manufactured after 1997 should work reasonably  
> well.  What are
> you trying to do?  What's your budget?
>
> You can go cheaper and still see acceptable results, but if you're  
> of a Studio
> bent, you can't go wrong with anything mAudio from the Audiophile  
> 24/96 on
> up.  These are good cards that work really well.
>
> If you can't afford one of those, I can dig around to try to come  
> up with a
> recommendation for something else of current manufacture.  The  
> stuff I used
> to recommend the most is no longer in production, and I'm not  
> really sure
> what's out there these days, since my own soundcards are old.  Just  
> not as
> old as yours!  :)
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> D. Michael McIntyre
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