On 5/8/06, John R. McPherson <jrm21(a)cs.waikato.ac.nz> wrote:
The SB Live is/was a good card under linux for hardware mixing, although I don't know if they're still sold anymore.
I had an SB Live (and yes, they are still sold, check pricespy.co.nz). The problem I could not solve is that the rear channels never sounded right. They were very quiet, and if I adjusted the volume of the rear channels, they just sounded very tinny. I probably did weeks worth of research in total, but coul never get the sound to the quality that I had when using the same card/speaker set under Windows, unfortunately. I didn't find many other mentions of the problem on the net though, so it may have just been a certain revision of the SBLive, or something else equally weird. Joseph.