On Mon, Dec 03, 2012 at 10:30:00AM +0000, Victor Lazzarini wrote:
> Thanks for the information. What about HW support? Is there a good range of support for different audio cards?
> 
Good question, and one I'm not sure I can answer authoritatively.
I think it's fairly good, but certainly not universal.

My own experience is that I bought a ZaReason laptop in July specifically
to have a good base for running Haiku, but also knowing that it didn't
yet handle Haiku audio!  ZaReason specifically produce Linux machines
(I dual boot) so as the audio was fine on that I assumed I could probably
get it working in Haiku too.  I never actually solved the problem myself,
but one of the core folks added all the driver quirks that Linux has a
month or so ago, and as a result I now have excellent Haiku audio too.
(It's an HDA chipset.)

My previous machine (with a now-dying drive) has auich, which has
occasional glitches, apparently due to priority inversion somewhere.
It's an old and slow single-CPU machine, though.  Certainly the laptop
is fine.

This is the list of drivers currently included in the distribution:

auich
auvia
echo3g
emuxki
hda
ice1712
sis7018

Don't really know how all these work in practice.  They may have rather
long latency as distributed.  This will hopefully get fixed soon, as it's
not inherent in the design.

There's an old OSS package that's supposed to handle other drivers,
but personally I didn't have much luck with it (on an ancient ThinkPad).

There's a database of known hardware on the Haikuware site, where
people can report their experiences. Sound cards are at:

 http://haikuware.com/hardware-database/sound-cards

It looks as if most of the CreativeLabs and M-Audio stuff works, but
the list is probably very incomplete.

	-- Pete --

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