Re: [linux-audio-user] So what's your laptop sound like ?

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Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] So what's your laptop sound like ?
From: Steve Harris (S.W.Harris_AT_ecs.soton.ac.uk)
Date: Mon Aug 26 2002 - 11:04:37 EEST


On Sun, Aug 25, 2002 at 01:12:04 -0400, Dave Phillips wrote:
> 1) What laptop do you use (if any, of course) ?
Dell i8100
 
> 2) What audio chipset does it have inside ?
Maestro 3i
 
> 3) What sound driver(s) do you use ?
ALSA
 
> 4) Are you using any of the following:
no

> 5) Was your experience setting up sound on your laptop:
(C) Delightful - installation & configuration was an easy breeze
 
> 6) How do you use your laptop audio system, i.e., listening to XMMS,
> composing with realtime output from Pd or Csound, soundfile editing with
> Audacity or Snd, etc. ?

All of the above + testing ardour. The latency is horrible, card is
unreliable below 1024 period size. Output sound quality is fairly good as
long as the level is not too high, but input is bad, heavily distorted and
noisy.

Supports multiple open, which is useful for running jack + oss emulation.

- Steve


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