Re: [tlug] Best sound card for Linux

[Dave M G <dave@example.com>]

Godwin, Curt, Josh,

Thank you all for responding.

My motherboard has a sound device, but it behaves badly. Sound pops and 
echoes, especially in Skype, and the chipset causes freezing in FireFox 
when playing Flash media. There are rumors that this latter issue will 
be solved in the next Ubuntu release, but I'm not sure the former issue 
will ever go away.

However, I'm Skyping at least 3 days a week for hours at a time as I 
collaborate with my father on programming some stuff. The sound quality 
is bugging me.

Instead of waiting 3 months or more for the OS upgrade - which I'm a 
little wary of because upgrades have proven to always be a little bumpy 
for me - I thought if I got a decent reliable card with a well supported 
chipset, I might do better.

I might take Godwin's recommendation for PCI-64 or PCI-128, but I'm not 
sure exactly which cards those are, actually. Creative Labs seems to 
have a bewildering array of different models, naming schemes, and 
variations.

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Dave M G
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