Re: [Alsa-user] Request - Soundcard recomendation

[Dan Z. <dr...@ra...>]

James Tappin wrote:

> On Monday 26 November 2001 03:11, Jason Ostermann wrote:
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>>And it also need to be a soundcard I can actually buy. =3D) Hopefully a=
round
>>$200.
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> The Midiman Audiophile 2496 is probably a good choice, alternatively on=
e of=20
> the other Midiman Delta series. Over here they are about =A3160. The sp=
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> -100dB noise on the ADC & DAC with an expectation of -108, which is=20
> consistent with my measurements.=20
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Any hints of getting the Audiophile 2496 to work with alsa? I just got on=
e

($149 from Guitar Center) but have not been able to get things working.
I started out with 0.5.12. No trouble loading the ice1712 module, but no=20
sound either. amixer, alsamixer, and envy24control all seemed to be able
to display something that looked somewhat sensible, but nothing I tried
got any sound to come out. In looking back through the alsa-user=20
archives, I read some messages about the 2496 -> OSS emulation (among=20
other things) being problematic because of the multichannel nature of=20
ice1712, so I decided to try 0.9.0beta9. Still no problem loading the=20
modules and getting the card recognized, but using anything that talks
to it (alsamixer and esp. envy24control) causes the computer to=20
completely freeze, I can't even telnet into it. So I would greatly
appreciate any pointers regarding:
1) making sure one version of alsa is completely removed before
installing another.
2) any specific hints regarding the Audiophile 2496

BTW, I also have a AudioPCI card in the machine and in all the versions
of alsa mentioned about, it works perfectly. So I have no trouble=20
getting sound out of my machine, just out of the Audiophile 2496.

Thanks,
DanZ

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  *   Dan Zaharevitz
  *   Camp Springs, MD
  *   dr...@ra...