Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] S/PDIF on portables
From: Frank Carmickle (frankiec_AT_unforgettable.com)
Date: Wed Mar 28 2001 - 14:44:26 EEST
Hi
I Do believe that the gateway solo 9300 has s/pdif on what ever that audio
controller is.
HTH
Frank Carmickle
phone: 412 761-9568
email: frankiec_AT_dryrose.com
On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, D. Marcus Johnson wrote:
> Maybe this can be made to work:
>
> http://www.qbik.ch/usb/devices/
> device overview
> audio
> Opcode Sonic Port
>
> It seems that some one has got this at least
> partiailly working.
>
>
> --- Tracey Hytry <shakti_AT_best.com> wrote:
> > Alexia called home from New York last night (She's
> > visiting there for the week) and asked me if I knew
> > of any laptop computers that had S/PDIF IO ports on
> > them. I told her that I'd ask here, if it's ok?
> >
> > She's in NY with her laptop and DAT recorder with no
> > way to get audio off of the DAT and onto the laptop,
> > without needing the workstation at home here to
> > transfer. What she wants is to bypass the DAT
> > recorder altogether and just use the computer for
> > recording.
> >
> > As far as I know, there are no laptops that have
> > decent enough sound systems to record with? But, we
> > realized that SPDIF would work with a little extra
> > added on the side.
> >
> > Now I know that a few are grinning, thinking about
> > us trying to get a laptop to do this? I know it's
> > easily within Ms Massalin's abilities to do this, if
> > we can find a laptop that has digital I/O like this.
> > The hardware part is pretty easy, we have the parts
> > around here already and both of us can design and
> > put together that part. Alexia won't have much of a
> > problem programming to the SPDIF ports if there is
> > some kind of documentation on where they are in I/O
> > space.
> >
> > So, if anyone knows of any decent laptops with SPDIF
> > ins and outs, we would really appreciate the help.
> > I told her that we should probably not even try to
> > use a PCMCIA card that did this(we're using linux).
> >
> > Thanks, Tracey who had way too much Linux last night
> > and is going to go out to the greenhouse to do some
> > work.
> >
>
>
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