Re: Sound card with S/PDIF input (and output) wanted

[kswisher@iolinc.net (Swisher, Karl)]

On Sat, 03 Jul 1999, Christian Worm Mortensen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Can it really be true that there exists no useable sound card (except for
> the in Europe very expensive Turtle Beach Pinnacle card) with S/PDIF input
> that is supported by Linux? Either by OSS/free or ALSA. The only thing I
> have found is:
> 
> 1) Turlte Beach Fiji - but that card seems to have been withdrawn from the
> market
> 2) Hoontechs Multisound cards - but theese seems to resample all incomming
> data to their own 44.1Khz clock.
> 
> 
> Christian

I'm new to Linux so I don't  know all the options we have yet.  I have the
Sound  Blaster Live.   The drivers for this card under Linux are not available
yet.   I went ahead and purchased the card knowing I couldn't run it fully under
Linux at this time.   I believe the card will be supported under Linux because
it is a great card and in my opinion Creative will sell many .  You get all the
analog, synth, and midi feature plus digital I/O for around $200US.  I do use
the card on the other OS until they get the drivers worked out.   Open Sound
System (OSS) and Creative both are working on drivers for this card.

Thanks
Karl