As an experiment I just hooked a red LED to that digital audio output on the back of my CDROM, placed the fiber optic cable in front of it and found that it recorded the cd audio... I didn't know that it would do that, cool! __________________________________ L.A.B.M.A.T.: Lifelike Artificial Being Manufactured for Assassination and Troubleshooting Matthew LaBerge labmat at earthlink.net -----Original Message----- From: Nick.T.Reinking at supervalu.com [mailto:Nick.T.Reinking at supervalu.com] Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2000 11:39 AM To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org Subject: RE: [TCLUG:19309] SPDIF Under Linux, you're probably better off with the AWE64 rather than the Aureal card, simply because of poor driver support. The SB Live! S/PDIF is well supported under Linux, see http://opensource.creative.com Nick labmat at earthlink.net, on 06/29/2000 11:45:34 AM To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org @ PMDF cc: Subject: RE: [TCLUG:19309] SPDIF I guess not that it really matters but how would the Aureal card stand up to my AWE64 ? __________________________________ L.A.B.M.A.T.: Lifelike Artificial Being Manufactured for Assassination and Troubleshooting Matthew LaBerge labmat at earthlink.net -----Original Message----- From: Ben Kochie [mailto:ben at nerp.net] Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2000 11:31 AM To: TCLUG Subject: Re: [TCLUG:19309] SPDIF General nanosystems, and also CompUSA have the aureal vortex SuperQuad.. which has optical output.. I havn't tried mine in linux yet.. but I'm going to be replacing win95 as soon as the Hollywood+ drive improves to the point of usability Thank You, Ben Kochie (ben at nerp.net) *-----------------------* [ - * - * - * - * - * - * - * - ] | Unix/Linux Consulting | [ Haiku Error Message: ] | PC/Mac Repair | [ Chaos reigns within. ] | Networking | [ Reflect, repent, and reboot. ] | http://nerp.net | [ Order shall return. ] *-----------------------* [ - * - * - * - * - * - * - * - ] "Unix is user friendly, Its just picky about its friends." On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Matthew LaBerge wrote: > Hey guys, my stereo is going on the fritz again, just at the time I want to > put some music on my minidisk player. Anyone know where I can get one of > those optical SPDIF out cards for cheap, if it means that I need to get a > new sound card, which one should I get so it works with linux? Any help > would be appreciated. > > > __________________________________ > L.A.B.M.A.T.: Lifelike Artificial Being Manufactured for Assassination and > Troubleshooting > > Matthew LaBerge > labmat at earthlink.net > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org > For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org