USB Sound Card – TurtleBeach

My earphone port on my notebook was loose because of abuse it had seen for ages. So I was stuck without any music. My iPod was sledgehammered last month (courtesy: Me). So I was looking for alternatives and found the USB sound card for my notebook. It was a TurtleBeach Advantage Micro USB soundcard. I was skeptical initially when I bought it. Thought it would never run on my linux distro (Slackware). After compiling the kernel the 4th time, I finally got it working. What I did was basically disabled any ALSA drivers for my onboard sound card in the kernel. I built a module for USB Sound Card which can be found under the kernel config, Device Drivers > Sound > ALSA > USB Devices.

Then I rebooted my notebook with the newly compiled kernel and did a modprobe snd_usb_audio  and voila, I had sound. The sound is awesome. Its much better that what the onboard sound card was giving me

~ by brokenflea on September 16, 2006.