[Edoardo]

Hi, I'd LOVE to use an UbuntuStudio-driven notebook as a source, but cannot find the drivers of any decent external souncard or DAC I know.

So I'm looking for a DAC or either a sound card firewire/USB 2.0 to optical/coaxial converter, price below 500€, that works with UbuntuStudio...

Does it exist?

Thank you...

 

[fjf]

I use my Aqvox DAC with optical out of my motherboard. It also works with the USB out, but it is more than your price range...
Here: http://www.head-fi.org/forums/f46/ub...-cplay-460793/ Patrick uses an emu 404 out of the usb of his netbook.

 

[srserl]

The Alsa project has a list of supported sound cards:
supported sound card list
FFADO has a list of firewire sound interfaces it works with here:
firewire sound device info

Other than that, you can do a search on your desired dac/sound card and "Linux" as the search terms and see if anyone reports that it works.
I do a lot of DIY, so I don't have any commercial dacs, but anything using a 270x dac chip should work. I use an Echo Gina 3G interface on my recording computer, but that is a pci interface and will not work for a laptop (and isn't so great for headphone listening anyway).

 

[Edoardo]

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Originally Posted by srserl /img/forum/go_quote.gif The Alsa project has a list of supported sound cards: supported sound card list FFADO has a list of firewire sound interfaces it works with here: firewire sound device info Other than that, you can do a search on your desired dac/sound card and "Linux" as the search terms and see if anyone reports that it works. I do a lot of DIY, so I don't have any commercial dacs, but anything using a 270x dac chip should work. I use an Echo Gina 3G interface on my recording computer, but that is a pci interface and will not work for a laptop (and isn't so great for headphone listening anyway).

WOOOOW didn't know about the FFADO at all!!!

Thank you very much!!!