I just had to share this:

If you are in the US, Office Max stores have the "Mad Dog Prowler 4.1" soundcard on sale for $15 with a $15 mailin rebate this week...i.e. its FREE! I always look out for this card, because its often rebated, and it has a kernel driver in linux, along with doing Dolby 4.1 sound(that means its got stereo outputs, along with the standard inputs and game port).

I now iwn THREE of these cards, all of which have worked beautifully with what was already there in the kernel, even on boxes still running 2.4.26.

I highly reccomend all Linux users try and pick one up if their store still has them, this card is one of the cheapest, easiest to use, decently full-featured card I have ever found in Linux.

seriously, go buy some of these cards