Good Soundcard

[novafire]

I have a Turtle Beach Santa Cruz and am disappointed with it in Linux. I cannot use most of its features and I have to mess with the mixer because it seems to mute itself a lot.

I have a few open PCI slots so I was thinking of buying a cheap new card for Linux. Any suggestions?

I have heard good things about the SB Live.

I am mainly looking for stable drivers and I do not need any special features, but if I can control most of the inputs/outputs with the mixer and they stay the way I want them I will be happy.

Thanks

[danrees]

I use a Soundblaster PCI 128 and have had no problems with it whatsoever on any distro I have used. It uses the es1371 kernel module, so if your distro doesn't detect it automatically, modprobe es1371 is usually enough to get it working.

They're dirt cheap too.

[mdwatts]

I also had the PCI-128 and it was always detected and configured whenever I installed Linux.

The SB Live is probably the most popular and is well supported in Linux.

Just ensure you have PnP OS disabled in the bios.

[novafire]

Does the PCI 128 work well in full duplex?

and/or the Live for that matter.

[Daedra]

I would recommend Either the SBlive or the Audigy.

the live has been supported in Linux for a while now, and Stable Audigy drivers were released not long ago, the live is about $25 on www.pricewatch.com and the audigy is around $50, im using the audigy myself