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/ Regards
Cards that do hardware mixing (when supported by the driver) makes life much easier. I have a similar problem with skype, although the problem is that skype uses the older OSS (/dev/dsp) sound API instead of ALSA, so you can't have alsa apps and skype using the sound card at the same time (unless there is hardware mixing, which allows multiple apps to open the device at the same time).
Under recent ubuntu releases (and presumably other distros), multiple ALSA apps can use the soundcard at the same time with software mixing. (This is what esd tries to do, except it doesn't work with non-esd apps).
The SB Live is/was a good card under linux for hardware mixing, although I don't know if they're still sold anymore.
John
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