On 11/23/20 3:41 PM, BorgLabs - Kate Draven wrote:
On Monday 23 November 2020, Edward via tde-users wrote:
On 11/23/20 11:40 AM, BorgLabs - Kate Draven wrote:
Ok update on the audio card question.
Card chosen = SB Audigy RX - 100% natively supported. Please note this card has an optical io port that is ON by default when first installed. Turn it off to activate the 1/8 jacks. Otherwise there will be no signal out or in (no audio/mic/ or linein).
The sound quality is as good as the card it replaced which is now in Gary's (brother from another mother) computer. He's having fun. Sadly, the RX, doesn't have a break out box like the Platinum does, so I have to make one. No biggy, 3 wires in a project box.
According to the headaches I gave out freely at Creative Labs and a variety of other source. Any emu10kx chip is native on linux and, infact, has better support than mac and windows. Yeeeah for us.
So.. solved, concluded, moving on (if anyone has any question please feel free to ask).
This is good to know. I had been looking at my Creative Sound Blaster Live! 5.1 (legacy PCI) sound card, which I believe has a year in the early 2000's shown on its printed circuit board and have been contemplating installing it in the other desktop, just to see if it still works and if the audio is better than what's provided from the on-board (NVIDIA).
I have tons of those and they all work perfectly. In fact, this machine
has
one Live! 5.1 and it's working grand.
Go for it.
Kate
I have not yet put the card in, but had a thought... The sound cards from that era, have a jack where an audio cable connected it to the CD/DVD drive. Where the card would override the on-board audio once installed, would that audio cable still be necessary today, or would today's motherboards know to route the audio from the CD/DVD through the motherboard, directly to the sound card? I haven't actually looked at the back of the DVD drive to see if it even has that connection on it. That system is from 2009.
Hi Ed,
The cable is no longer needed. It's handled by software. The only app I think might need it is kscd. I'll check and get back to you.
Kate
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