Hi,
I have a crappy on-board VIA sound card, now i want to chage to sound blaster audigy SE, i search through some forums and notice that this card is not mentioned much. I wonder if besides sound blaster live 5.1 which use emu10k1, other sound blaster(live and audigy) have full support on linux, especially fedora. I tried a sound blaster live 24bits a month ago and could not make it work. Sound blaster audigy SE is another low price card from creative, i am not sure if it is heavily software dependent as live 24bits. Hope to hear from some expert.
T.I.A
Thai

Fully supported is a broad term...will it make sounds. Yes. ALSA (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture) works well with Audigy cards, if there is no sound coming out then you will need to tweak the mixer settings but it usually works without a hitch.

The SE is one of the cards that are not supported by the emu10k1 driver a post on the site here says that person had success with Mandriva. If you can just pick up a used Audigy they work great and can be had cheaply.

Your sound blaster audigy SE uses the snd-ca0106 driver. You can peruse here at ALSA. ALSA at this time takes some not all audigys. It takes time to develop drivers. Also, you will more success with the 2.6.x kernels.

Sorry that should say original audigy cards