>
>
>
> It does suck to find a working piece of equipment you already have is
> useless due to driver issues.
>
> As for other sound cards - outside of some Pro-level cards and the X-Fi,
> I only know of one PCIe sound card, the Asus Xonar. The cheapest Xonar
> is around $90 (expensive, but it is a very good card, some prefer it over
> X-Fi purely on quality issues). Newegg is a good place to buy it if you are
> in the USA.
>
> Sound cards only recently entered the PCIe arena, because they generally
> don't need the bandwidth of PCIe and PCIe's design actually causes some
> problems for sound cards.
>
> I don't know what you are doing with your audio, but for many things,
> modern onboard sound is fine. Onboard sound chips used to be stereo
> only and had quality issues and noise from the rest of board. But modern
> sound chips are often very good, and are usually 5.1 or 7.1.
>
> If your board doesn't have onboard sound, you could go with old-fashioned
> PCI, assuming you have a free slot. I understand the urge to use the newest
> interconnect, but it isn't necessarily the best option for sound right now.
>
I fully agree with you...my situation is that i only have pci-express slots
avialble and i have no sound on hte board - -- so i need sound!!!!
Is everyone positive that there is no sound driver for creative labs under
linux...??
I ran lsmod and got this below - it does not count for anything ???
srvname:~# locate ca0106 | grep ko
/lib/modules/2.6.18-4-amd64/kernel/sound/pci/ca0106/snd-ca0106.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.18-6-amd64/kernel/sound/pci/ca0106/snd-ca0106.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.18-6-vserver-amd64/kernel/sound/pci/ca0106/snd-ca0106.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.18-6-xen-amd64/kernel/sound/pci/ca0106/snd-ca0106.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.18-6-xen-vserver-amd64/kernel/sound
/pci/ca0106/snd-ca0106.ko
thor:~# sudo modprobe -v snd-ca0106
insmod /lib/modules/2.6.18-6-amd64/kernel/sound/core/snd-page-alloc.ko
insmod /lib/modules/2.6.18-6-amd64/kernel/sound/pci/ac97/snd-ac97-bus.ko
insmod /lib/modules/2.6.18-6-amd64/kernel/sound/soundcore.ko
install /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd && { /sbin/modprobe --quiet
snd-ioctl32 ; : ; }
insmod /lib/modules/2.6.18-6-amd64/kernel/sound/core/snd.ko
insmod /lib/modules/2.6.18-6-amd64/kernel/sound/core/snd-timer.ko
install /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-pcm && { /sbin/modprobe --quiet
snd-pcm-oss ; : ; }
insmod /lib/modules/2.6.18-6-amd64/kernel/sound/core/snd-pcm.ko
insmod /lib/modules/2.6.18-6-amd64/kernel/sound/core/oss/snd-mixer-oss.ko
insmod /lib/modules/2.6.18-6-amd64/kernel/sound/core/oss/snd-pcm-oss.ko
insmod /lib/modules/2.6.18-6-amd64/kernel/sound/pci/ac97/snd-ac97-codec.ko
insmod /lib/modules/2.6.18-6-amd64/kernel/sound/core/seq/snd-seq-device.ko
install /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-rawmidi && { /sbin/modprobe
--quiet snd-seq-midi ; : ; }
insmod /lib/modules/2.6.18-6-amd64/kernel/sound/core/snd-rawmidi.ko
install /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-seq && { /sbin/modprobe --quiet
snd-seq-midi ; /sbin/modprobe -- quiet snd-seq-oss ; : ;
}
insmod /lib/modules/2.6.18-6-amd64/kernel/sound/core/seq/snd-seq.ko
insmod /lib/modules/2.6.18-6-amd64/kernel/sound
/core/seq/snd-seq-midi-event.ko
insmod /lib/modules/2.6.18-6-amd64/kernel/sound/core/seq/snd-seq-midi.ko
insmod /lib/modules/2.6.18-6-amd64/kernel/sound/core/seq/oss/snd-seq-oss.ko
install /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-ca0106 &&
/lib/alsa/modprobe-post-install snd-ca0106
insmod /lib/modules/2.6.18-6-amd64/kernel/sound/pci/ca0106/snd-ca0106.ko
