Shopping for Sound Card
Please excuse my lack of brevity...
I'm new to linux, and I gave Mepis a try a few months back, since it a "newbie" distro. Everything was autodetected except my onboard sound card. I've got a Dell. I found out that Dell onboard sound cards come in a variety of flavors, and some are incompatible. The suggestion offered to me was to go to Walmart and pick up a bargain Sound Blaster.
So I picked up a Live! 7.1.
I found out that I shouldn't have picked that one. I get distorted sound, but my card work fine in Gate's world, so it's not a bad card.
I also tried Xandros, and KANOTIX, so I know it's not a distro problem. When querying Creative Labs, they told me that my card is currently unsupported for Linux, and that I could check back in a few months.
It's still unsupported.
So I want to just give up on this card and get another. I've already found it a home in an exclusively XP machine, and I'm prepared to get something for mine.
Obviously a PCI card, but I don't need anything fancy. I've only got a 2.1 speaker setup, so I don't even need the 5.1, 6.1, or better, just sonething which stands a good chance of working Distro-wide.
Any suggestions?
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