[Leaplist] A decent Sound card

[Jason Boxman]

On Thursday 11 December 2008 00:15:29 Bryan J Smith wrote:
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> 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.

Oh, weird.  I tend to find the integrated audio chipsets lag, even for games 
like Civ 4, so I've always discounted on-board audio as far as 'decent' goes.  
But acceptable for gaming with hardware audio acceleration might be beyond 
the scope of 'decent' in this thread. ;)

> ALSA does a great job with support.

Oh, at the time ALSA had no support for software mixing my chipset.


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