[Xastir] does Xastir work with -- external USB soundcard?

[Bob Nielsen]

On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 10:46:19AM -0800, Bill Vodall wrote:
> 
> > > The soundmodem  driver and multi app interface sounds like the way to go.
> > 
> > Well, it's one way to go.  If you're running laptops that have sound
> > hardware and you wish to use that instead of a TNC.  The sound
> > hardware can be used for other things too though, like audio alerts,
> > festival speech synthesizer, playing MP3's, etc.  You may not want
> > to give up your sound hardware to use just for a TNC.
> 
> I've heard that the USB soundcards can work even better then the
> built it sound card.   Not only do you get to keep the built in device
> for user multi-media use, but the external USB unit is separated significantly
> from the RF noise and interferance of the PC.
> 
> Anybody know how well these devices are supported under Linux?

I haven't tried one, but there is an ALSA driver for these in recent 
kernels.

Bob, N7XY