Thanks for all the replies.

I still haven't bought a sound card yet. I was following up the Audigy 2 but today discovered the Audigy2 have infact coverted from using the emu10k chipset/driver to the ca0106 chipset. This chipset isn't as well supported by the driver and chatting on the alsa irc channel endorsed my conclusion not to go with this chipset.

The card that I think holds promise is the YamahaYMF744 sold as the Xwave "Elite Value....." by PC Gear. I am sure other do to. I've mnaged to download lots of information about the chipset and it seems like Yamaha made the specifications quite open. I am hoping this tranlates to a comprehensive GPL driver but I'd be interested to hear others experience.

I am not adverse to spending $200 on a card if it does everything I want well. I nearly walked away with a Audigy 2 (~$75) today before deciding to be more thorough in my investigation. It seems it wouldn't have been money well spent.

The M-Audio Revolution 7.1 looks quite good and it seems to be well supported. Except a person on the alsa irc channel said it wouldn't do hardware mixing :( Maybe I just have to way until www.openwengo.com fully converts to alsa before things will work smoothly.

Cheers

On 08/05/06, Dominic Tennant <bnonn@orcon.net.nz> wrote:

On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 20:20 +1000, Oliver Jones wrote:
> There are good drivers for the Audigy on Linux if I recall correctly.
> Creative support Linux quite well with Open Source drivers.
>
> http://opensource.creative.com/

Make sure you get the right Audigy though. The high-end, decent version
is supported, but the crappy low-end one (the LS?) won't work in Ubuntu
last I checked (I was a cheapskate, and suffered for it).

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