Hallo, gerard van dongen hat gesagt: // gerard van dongen wrote:
AFAIK, firewire is not yet supported, although you might be able to get it to work with jack. Let's call it untested at best. Does it have to be either USB or Firewire? There are a lot of nice pci cards with multi channel support, f.i. those based on the envy24 chips. USB is not really ideal for audio, especially multichannel. That would probably require USB 2, and which means you need kernel 2.6 (I think) which can be difficult to set up for good audio performance.
Well, but USB1 works. For example the Audiotrak Maya 7.1 works fine - I have tested it - doing 8 channel output with ALSA (@ 16bit/44.1kHz only, but that's a restriction by the USB1 bandwith.) The Maya 7.1 isn't expensive, too.
Of course if PCI would be an option, it will always be better.
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