[lug] decent cheap soundcard

[Nate Duehr]

On May 24, 2005, at 4:39 PM, Ryan Wheaton wrote:

> Hey all,
>
> I'm looking for a decent and cheap (sub $30) sound card that is well 
> supported under linux.  I used to have a ton of old SB16 cards lying 
> around, but gave them all away about a year ago.  I want to listen to 
> internet radio here at work (http://www.kexp.org rocks btw), and my 
> current linux desktop doesn't have any sound. This morning I stopped 
> by compusa to check out what they had and bought an el-cheapo compusa 
> brand that they had for 19.99.  It's a ALS4000 chipset and I got it 
> running with some ALSA drivers...It _works_ but it sounds really 
> crappy and skips a lot (any time I do ANYTHING in X there's a little 
> hiccup).  This makes me think that either the HW is crap or the driver 
> support isn't all that.  I also saw a SB Live! 24bit at compusa for 
> $30, but didn't find and documentation that says that it's well 
> supported either.  So, any and all suggestions are welcome...
>
> thanks,
>
> -rtw

SB Live works great.  Go for it.  It's the modern-day "cheap but good" 
sound card, I'd say, from all the reports of folks that use them for 
the 2-way radio linking project I help out with.

Nate