Sound Card Recommendations for Linux

[Lonni J Friedman]

On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 3:23 PM, James McDonald
<james at jamesmcdonald.id.au> wrote:
> Very happy with F15... made me move from Ubuntu.

good man.

>
> No I will though...
>
> From what I google/gather the snd-hda-intel module has to deal with a lot of
> problems from badly configured BIOS so good point.

I should note that even with the F15 upgrade, I had to pass a few
special options to the sound module at boot to get it to work, so you
might want to try experimenting with those options (run 'modinfo
snd-hda-intel' to see the parameters) to see if they help at all.

>
>
>
> On 18/08/11 08:15, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
>>
>> Oh.  In that case, did you verify that you've got the latest mobo BIOS?
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 2:01 PM, James McDonald
>> <james at jamesmcdonald.id.au>  wrote:
>>>
>>> F15 sigh
>>>
>>> On 18/08/2011 1:48 AM, "Lonni J Friedman"<netllama at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I can't offer any sound card reqs, as I'm using what comes onboard in
>>>> all of my systems. However, I think I was experiencing the same
>>>> problem as you on a Macbook Pro. Whenever I was attempting to do
>>>> anything with Flash, the audio was horrible. Stuttering, feedback,
>>>> horrible noise. Then I upgraded from Fedora14 to Fedora15, and the
>>>> problem went away. You didn't say which distro you're running.
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 6:44 AM, James McDonald
>>>> <james at jamesmcdonald.id.au>  wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi All,
>>>>>
>>>>> I recently bought a new PC with embedded sound that was recognized as a
>>>>> Realtek ALC887-VD and installs a snd-hda-intel ALSA module. The
>>>>> snd-hda-intel module has some quirks.
>>>>>
>>>>> I have Googled till I'm cross eyed but haven't yet discovered the
>>>>> magical
>>>>> mix to get it to work crackle and feedback free. Especially since I
>>>>> want to
>>>>> be able to Skype and use gtk-recordmydesktop with sound input.
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm thinking that maybe one day some one will get it right but it's
>>>>> probably a few kernel upgrades/dist releases away.
>>>>>
>>>>> Until then I would like your idea's on what sound cards are working in
>>>>> your own setups. With the idea of maybe installing one on my box.
>>>>>
>>>>> I have the following slots. With a graphics card taking up the PCIe 2.0
>>>>> x
>>>>> 16 slot.
>>>>>
>>>>> Expansion Slots 1 x PCIe 2.0 x16 (blue)
>>>>> 1 x PCIe 2.0 x16 (x4 mode, black)
>>>>> 1 x PCIe 2.0 x1
>>>>> 1 x PCI
>>>>> So suggestions please.
>>>>>
>>>>> Of course I will be able to investigate and figure this out myself
>>>>> using
>>>>> the interwebs. But I had a hankering for a nostalgia post as much as to
>>>>> ask
>>>>> this question.
>>>>>
>>>>> PS. Hope you are all well.
>>
>>
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