MakOwner
April 16th, 2012, 02:18 AM
I am setting up a replacement for a system that records over the air FM radio.
The old system is a Dell PowerEdge 350, using a PCI Ensoniq 5880B sound card. This worked like a charm with no issues. I used a 10.04LTS minimal installation, and installed alsa-utils from the cli.
The arecord in the alsa-utils package records from the default sound device and just works.
The new system is a Dell PowerEdge 850.
The 850 has PCIe and PCIx I/O slots, so transferring the old sound card won't work. I went to Fry's and picked up the first PCIe sound card with a name I recognized - a Creative x-fi PCIe sound card.
It doesn't work of course...
So, I'm looking for a (hopefully) cheap card that the mic/line in works out of the box from a fresh install of minimal LTS install. I don't need sound out, and there won't be any X windows installed, so no GUI tools.
Anyone have any suggestions/experience for this?
The old system is a Dell PowerEdge 350, using a PCI Ensoniq 5880B sound card. This worked like a charm with no issues. I used a 10.04LTS minimal installation, and installed alsa-utils from the cli.
The arecord in the alsa-utils package records from the default sound device and just works.
The new system is a Dell PowerEdge 850.
The 850 has PCIe and PCIx I/O slots, so transferring the old sound card won't work. I went to Fry's and picked up the first PCIe sound card with a name I recognized - a Creative x-fi PCIe sound card.
It doesn't work of course...
So, I'm looking for a (hopefully) cheap card that the mic/line in works out of the box from a fresh install of minimal LTS install. I don't need sound out, and there won't be any X windows installed, so no GUI tools.
Anyone have any suggestions/experience for this?