[Leaplist] A decent Sound card

[Bryan J Smith]

On Wed, 2008-12-10 at 12:43 -0500, Jason Boxman wrote:
> I definitely had one -- I think it on an SiS748 chipset based board, so 
> maybe it's been a while since C-Media was popular.  I think I have a box 
> here at the office with one, too.  It's also an Athlon XP based system.
> Whatever shipped on my Biostar is junk, too.  It's an nforce3 based 
> board.  I can't tell since I disabled it in the BIOS on this box.

Ahhh, yes, you're taking me back 4+ years.  Oh, back then, everything
was a mix.

> If no one uses C-Media anymore, that would be just fantastic by me.  One 
> of the C-Media cards had no PCM control!  The volume control was 
> entirely in software and that was only handled with the Windows driver!

It might have been an earlier C-Media chipset then.  I've used the newer
8738/8768 without issue though.

As far as software control, that's typical now.  There is even software
toggle between headphones and speakers on notebooks these days, have
been for years.

ALSA does a great job with support.



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