Yes!!

I just got in my SB Audigy 2 ZS Card. After a little bit of fiddling I managed to get sound from it. I guess the card has some type of strange digital output that you have to disable to get it to work. But I’m very happy now! I can finally use several sound applications at once regardless of whether or not the program uses alsa. I was able to cat /dev/urandom > /dev/dspand multiple times without /dev/dsp getting blocked. This is just wonderful. This sound card was well worth the money IMO. I got a ieee1394 port to go with it to boot! 🙂 The bad news is that I’ll have to recompile my kernel again to get the support for it lol. Maybe I should just use genkernel this time. Nah, that’s no fun. I don’t really need ieee1394 at the moment anyway. I’ll get around to it. Right now I’m just going to test out my sound card some more. Maybe I’ll try skyping my parents tonight. Actually first I’ll have to make sure I have the microphone hooked up right. Oh so much fun I can have now.

I’ll try to study for final sometime before Saturday, I promise :p