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Any way of getting audio to work on modern hardware?

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It seems that ROS does not support any modern HD audio right now? Driver installation got stuck at 100% CPU load when trying to install drivers on my ThinkPad T430(s).

Is there any known way to get audio? I did get it to run on my old ThinkPad T23 with the Windows drivers but that is a vintage system.

I am talking about a laptop (T410 or T430(s)) so it would have to be a usb device using vgal's usb-patches.
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Re: Any way of getting audio to work on modern hardware?

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Audio support is still experimental and can cause bugs, so you better try it out on a VM.
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Re: Any way of getting audio to work on modern hardware?

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AC97 sort of works, HD audio does not as you already realized by testing. So right now your only way is a VM emulating you a AC97 device. Audio is not top priority right now I fear.
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Is there a USB ac97 audio card available that might work (used market)?
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Re: Any way of getting audio to work on modern hardware?

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It is surprisingly difficult to find an older USB AC97 sound card, maybe these were never produced bc that technology was on every board?

However I did find this, maybe I should give it a try :D
http://www.nanosoftsystem.com/bdpriceli ... -dhaka.php

Edit: might be same as this:
https://www.amazon.com/DSYJ-Channel-Ext ... 45-9562046
Drivers not needed from Win98SE to Vista indicates AC97 instead of HDaudio

My newest computer with AC97 is a ThinkPad T43p from 2005 with a single core Pentium-M, already a vintage machine. The following T60 had HD audio.
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Re: Any way of getting audio to work on modern hardware?

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So I have ordered one of these USB audio cards for 1.5€ from China, let's see how that works out :D
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Re: Any way of getting audio to work on modern hardware?

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I doubt that it will work due to isochronous transfer support missing in usb host drivers (usbehci / usbohci / usbuhci) and missing stream pointer api in ks
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Welcome back j_anderw !!
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