Soundcard.

Gustin Johnson gustin at echostar.ca
Sat Aug 8 23:12:00 BST 2009


Asmo Koskinen wrote:
> Robert Klaar kirjoitti:
> 
>> I'm in need of a new soundcard, it'll have too be external since I'm on a
>> laptop. It can be fairly simple, a couple of inputs/outputs, is there a list
>> somewhere of soundcards that are supported by the community?
> 
> There is ffado project for external firewire sound cards. I have Echo 
> AudioFire 4, it is good enough for me (http://www.ffado.org/?q=node/69).
> 
> http://www.ffado.org/
> 
> Do not buy anything but fully supported sound card from ffado project!
> 
> Here is list:
> 
> http://www.ffado.org/?q=devicesupport%2Flist&filter0=&filter1=&op2=OR&filter2[]=perfect
> 
> Ubuntu Studio 8.04 do not have support for ffado, but Ubuntu Studio 9.04 
> does (http://packages.ubuntu.com/jaunty/libffado0). But you can quite 
> easy build ffado library from source for Ubuntu Studio 8.04, if you like 
> to use that version.
> 
> And one more thing - there can be issues with firewire host controller - 
> check your laptop first:
> 
> http://subversion.ffado.org/wiki/HostControllers
> 
> I have TI in both machines I use (use 'lspci' command):
> 
> Desktop:
> 06:03.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB22/A 
> IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link)
> 
> Laptop:
> 0a:07.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB23 
> IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link)
> 
Even better would be a USB based device.  Check the alsa supported
device list.  IIRC there are devices by M-Audio, Edirol,


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