No Sound

Eric S. Johansson esj at harvee.org
Fri Aug 12 12:28:23 UTC 2005


Inhabitant of Zion wrote:
> i need to buy a card with optical out that has a chipset with a driver
> that is known to work with Hoary Hedgehog.
> 
> I want one that I can just fit, switch the computer on and it works.
> 
> If anybody knows of one they can recommend I would greatly appreciate
> it. The Wiki lists supported sound cards but without a prior knowledge
> of which have optical out its not much help and many of these computer
> shops don't list in their adds what chipset is being used.

try usb audio devices
http://www.sweetwater.com/store/search.php?s=usb+audio&tt=1&go=Go%21


works wonders with speech recognition on windows.  is recognised as usb 
audio on linux.

http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/iMic/

has optical interfaces.
http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/Transit/

the people at sweetwater are great and the sales folks can fog a mirror.

--- eric





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