[PD] [OT] mini-ITX again

[Martin Peach]

Derek Holzer wrote:
> Hi Martin,
> 
> thanks for the heads up. Does the SPDIF output work fine under Ubuntu? 
> How many channels is it good for?

I imagine it carries a copy of the two-channel audio out, but I haven't 
tried it yet. The audio is supposed to be switchable to 5.1 but that 
seems to be only available on Windows (the driver CD only has Windows 
files on it).

> 
> And on that tip...recommendations for a 4 or 8 channel DAC+ADC that 
> isn't the size of a telephone book?

Well the Hammerfall MultifaceII is 1/2 rackmount, you need either the 
PCI or PCMCIA card as well. It's well supported in linux but it's 
expensive. The M-audio Delta 66 might be good, the audio interface is 
smaller than the Multiface and has 4 ins and 4 outs. It's probably the 
same hardware as the delta 1010 but with less I/O, so it should work fine.

> 
> Last quiz question: how noisy is the fan on that sucker?
> 

It's a fanless board at the cost of running at 1GHz instead of 1.5. 
There's a small fan in the case that's about as loud as the hard drive. 
Probably you won't need it if the box is well ventilated. It would be 
nice to run everything from a compact flash card but there's the problem 
of logging -- right now I'm getting disk accesses every ten seconds or 
so, which would wear out the card. Maybe logging to a small expendable 
CF card while running off a larger one would work, or logging to another 
machine.

Martin


> best!
> d.
> 
> Martin Peach wrote:
>> I have installed Ubuntu on an EPIA LN10000EG. The sound card output is 
>> outrageously noisy, on the scope there's a waveform at about 2MHz 
>> which is much louder than the actual audio, but it's mostly filtered 
>> out by the subsequent hardware (audio amp) leaving a residual hiss. It 
>> sounds noisier than an ordinary soundblaster card. I'm using an 
>> M-audio Delta 1010 on the PCI slot, which works really well since the 
>> audio unit is a long way from the computer. The board also has an 
>> spdif output, which would naturally be noise-free.
>>
>> Martin
>>
>>
>>
>> Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>>> I haven't actually used the soundcard yet, first I got to fix these  
>>> damn crashes. arg
>>>
>>> .hc
>>>
>>> On Feb 28, 2008, at 4:06 PM, Derek Holzer wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi HC,
>>>>
>>>> did you notice much computer noise on the soundcard, as Ingo  
>>>> reported with the VIA chipsets?
>>>>
>>>> d.
>>>>
>>>> Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>>>>> I just built a Debian box from a EN15000 and have since found how  
>>>>> that it has freezing issues related to the IDE and USB drives.   
>>>>> There are some acknowledged issues, I think my freezes are  
>>>>> related, but basically, if I have a IDE CDROM and/or USB disk  
>>>>> hooked up, it'll lock up after about a day.  If I only have the  
>>>>> SATA disks attached, then no freezes...
>>>>
>>>> -- 
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>>>> macumbista
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