RE: [Discuss-gnuradio] Soundcard driver suggestions, please

[Ettus, Matt]

> 
> I am just getting ready to install GnuRadio in anticipation of Gerald 
> Youngblood's SDR-1000 radio showing up in a few weeks.
> 
> I have an M-Audio Delta44 card (4 ins, 4 outs, 24 bit, 
> 96ksamples/sec, full 
> duplex) that I've been using with the commercial OSS Envy24 
> driver.  It 
> seems to work OK, though the driver doesn't let me tie inputs 
> and outputs 
> together to look like a normal soundcard that uses a single 
> device for both 
> directions. 

That's ok, gnuradio can deal with that.

> I'm curious what driver setup people are using for GnuRadio?  
> Should I give 
> Alsa another go, or stick with the OSS drivers?  

If you've already paid, and it works, you might as well stick with OSS
drivers.  GNUradio will work with ALSA in OSS compatibility mode, but nobody
has made it work with ALSA in native mode yet.

Matt