Sound card recommendations?

[hollunder at gmx.at]

On Thu, 1 May 2008 14:43:33 -0500
<kwatson6 at austin.rr.com> wrote:

> Glad I stumbled upon Ubuntu Studio.  I've been through a terrible
> time trying to get sound working with Linux Mint and Ubuntu 8.04.
> Unfortunately, my Creative SB X-Fi card doesn't support Linux.  I've
> decided to replace the sound card, and am hoping someone on this list
> can make a recommendation.  
> 
> I plan to install Ubuntu Studio when I get time this weekend, and
> work from that distribution.  I write and arrange music (currently
> using Sibelius on WinXP), and edit digital photography with Photoshop
> CS.  Looking forward to the linux environment.
> 
> I need the card to work with both Ubuntu and WinXP Media Center
> Edition, with these general requirements:
> - 5.1 speaker capability
> - front mic/line input
> - front headphone output
> - front MIDI ports desirable (I have an adapter that works through
> USB in Windows)
> - 100 Hz S/N

I guess that should be 100dB SNR?

> - 20-20kHz freq range
> - decent onboard synth
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Details:
> - Dell XPS 400 w/Intel Pentium D 2.80 GHz chip
> - 4GB RAM
> - 2 HDD (sda 160 GB, Windows; dual boot with sdb 500 GB, Linux)
> - EVGA GeForce 8800 GT video card
> 

I don't know of any card where the on-board synth or whatever stuff is
supported in linux.
I think that I recently read that creative released linux drivers for
the x-fi or something like that.
I personally would keep my fingers from any stuff a company with that
kind of marketing produces.

Best Regards,
	Philipp