Fedora sound nightmare (Pulseaudio)

[Andrew Farris]

Rudolf Kastl wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 11:28 PM, Arthur Pemberton <pemboa at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 9:02 AM, Dimi Paun <dimi at lattica.com> wrote:
>>  > Folks,
>>  >
>>  >  As some of you might remember, I have experienced hell
>>  >  with Fedora sound ever since, well, FC3 or maybe  earlier.
>>  >  Every time I complained, I was told to file bug reports,
>>  >  which I did, and nothing much was done about it.
>>
>>  Just to let you know what has been working for, as I have almost zero
>>  sound related issues:
>>
>>  Sound Blaster Live + KDE artsd. I can play music, watch tv (via
>>  mythtv) and see a video in flash all at the same time.
> 
> soundblaster live with emu10k1 was always the best supported card in
> linux for me. it also doesent use the software mixing crap but has a
> real hardware mixer.  if you are lucky you still get one of those
> emu10k1 cards on ebay for 1 or 2 euros ;) otherwise you probably have
> to deal with ac97 crap.

I love my SB Audigy Gamer; it is very well supported by emu10k1.  The first 
generation Audigy cards at least can be used with great success.

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