There are plenty of applications in GNU/Linux for playing music or watching movies and TV, and many of them will work perfectly fine on old computers that choke on the simplest of tasks in Windows XP. Read the rest of this article »
If your (onboard) sound hardware doesn’t seem to be working even after you’ve made sure the correct modules are loaded and the system can see the relevant hardware, you probably just need to run alsaconf, to setup alsa to use it.
Do you have $500 to spare? Perhaps you’ve got nowhere put the money and it’s just taking up valuable space? Then you can get one of these Denon AK-DL1 cables.
They say it was “made from high purity copper wire and high performance connection parts” and it will “bring out all the nuances in digital audio reproduction from any of our Denon DVD players with the Denon Link feature”.
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