Hi,

I have a new computer. I do a radio show at the local university station. I have Vista and will add a version of Linux today on a new partition.

I am trying to record the radio shows by transmitting the sound from my stereo receiver, which is set to the radio station I am broadcasting from, through an external USB sound card to my new computer's line in jack. Windows tries to compromise the line in jack, and in any event can't use the version of dB power amp that records the shows on line in jack, I wasn't able to do this on my old computer over the last 2 months or so.

My question has to do with the Linux drivers. Is there a way to get the Linux drivers to work on the line in jack? If so, how? Is this something I'm going to have to wait for it to be available? Is it available now?

David McWade
mcwadedfx@aol.com
'David the Dj'

Hi David,

Linux supports almost every sound card using ALSA drivers ( http://www.alsa-project.org ).

Sometimes it can be tricky to configure but once you get it working it will keep working.

Some linux distributions go a long way towards detecting and configuring soundcards (like Ubuntu) while others leave most of the work to be done manually.

What linux distribution do you use or plan to use?

I assume you are using an USB sound card. What is the model?

rui
www.voind.com
[Online synthesizing and processing using hardware equipment]

Kubuntu, Edirol (sp?) USB Audio Interface

Is your card on this list? If it is, let me know what model it is, and it should be straightforward getting it to work on Kubuntu.

Unless you wrote something wrong I think you're a bit confused there. You either want to output from the receiver into the line in of your USB card or from the receiver straight into your computer's line in jack which I assume it's another soundcard, onboard or not.