WOW, thanks for these suggestions and informations a lot, because that saved me really a lot of trouble.
so from that what you are telling me here I can get the SB 5.1 VX, like I wrote in the mail to you, and of course the much more expensive Asus Xonar would be no problem at all.
The ICE1712/1724, I cant get at all and CA0106, I dont know what it is.
so the question now is, which of these two - SB 5.1 VX or Asus Xonar. I have a debian stable (lenny) w/ 2.6.26 old kernel and I would prefer if the card were already supported by that kernel, so I dont need to make any changes to the system any more.
thanks again Clemens, I appreciate your time and awaiting the definitive suggestion now, so we can solve the problem here.
(I maybe get also some card for me according to these inf. Now I am doing it for a friend who wants to digitalize a lot of his audio, so it would be nice to surprise him positively by linux and ALSA and everything around OSSoft.)
On Thu, 01 Apr 2010 15:47:58 +0200 Clemens Ladisch clemens@ladisch.de wrote:
Lars Schotte wrote:
does anybody have a suggestion for a sound card PCI-internal that works w/ ALSA and records HQ from line-in that can be used for digitalizing?
There aren't that many PCI chipsets. The CMI8738/8768/8770 chips have the DACs and ADCs integrated and aren't very good (although the 68/70 are noticeably better). The ICE1712/1724, CA0106, X-Fi and CMI8788 chips are purely digital and must be combined with separate DAC/ADC chips, which usually are quite good.
The X-Fi is not supported very well. The CA0106 is supported, and used on several cheap Sound Blaster cards, e.g. the SB 5.1 VX. The ICE1712/ ICE1724 chips are used in many models; see the .h files in http://git.alsa-project.org/?p=alsa-kernel.git;a=tree;f=sound/pci/ice1712;hb=HEAD. (The "ICE1723" is a low-end model, and I don't know if it's supported at all). The CMI8788 is used on the Asus Xonar cards; the D1/DX/D2/D2X/ST/ STX are supported; the DS is partially supported in the latest kernel.
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