Recommendations for misc. soundcards ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Aureal Vortex 2: OSS/Free: no driver OSS : OK ALSA : no driver Max kHz : 48 Driver : aureal.sourceforge.net Driver2 : http://makacs.poliod.hu/~pontscho/aureal/au88xx-1.1.3.tar.bz2 (buffer size increased to 64k) GUS PnP: OSS/Free: no driver OSS : OK ALSA : OK Max kHz : 48 SB Live!: OSS : OK ALSA : (?) Max kHz : 48 Gravis UltraSound ACE: OSS : sucks, max 44Khz ! Also has problems with the new sound code. ALSA : OK Max kHz : 48 Gravis UltraSound MAX: OSS : OK ALSA : OK (?) Max kHz : 48 ESS 688: OSS : OK ALSA : OK (?) Max kHz : 48 PC Speaker or DAC: OSS : OK (new timing code?) ALSA : no driver Max kHz : 6 ;) (the driver emulates 44.1 maybe more) Driver : ftp://ftp.infradead.org/pub/pcsp - use at least 2.4 if possible, 2.2 isn't tested - if sound clicks when playing from CD-ROM, turn on IRQ unmasking ! for example "hdparm -u1 /dev/cdrom" (see "man hdparm" !!!) This is recommended anyways... (for XMMS, etc...) Read DOCS/CDROM . - don't use your soundcard by other application ( for ex. XMMS ) ! if you use ESD, start MPlayer with the esddsp utility ! - Please tell us how MPlayer and your soundcard(s) worked together! Gabucino