Thanks for all your help. I will go with Alsa then packaged with debian live.
Cheers
On 3 August 2015 at 09:32, Robert Spiteri <rspiteri01@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for your reply.
>
> What I mean is a distribution that supports most modern sound hardware. Is
> Alsa enough please?
Alsa should be enough on most hardware, especially add-on cards.
Onboard cards are a different matter. They have often wrong/incomplete
connector tables and workarounds in Alsa and OSS give different degree
of success when using those.
HTH
Michal