I am interested in getting a sound card.
I have been looking around, and I like the audigy 2 zs platinum.
I could not find that exact card in the HCL.

Does anyone have one of these working?

I am looking for 7.1 sound. Are there any good altenatives similar to the Audigy?

I will use sound card for movies, games, and music creation.
I would like to get the creative labs gigaworks s750 speakers soon.


My box is a:
AMD 64 3000+ 939
MSI Neo Platinum
1gig kingston value ram
2 wd 250g sata drives.
evga geforce 6800


I have onboard sound working on Fedora COre 3.
I am waiting for gentoo 2005.0 64bit to be released to switch distros.
This is not a dual boot machine. (just linux.)

Any help is appreciated.
I have searched HCL - Google - multiple forums. I know the ? has had to been asked, but I can't find the answer.

Regards,
Blair

I think it is compatible but you should check the alsa site www.alsa-project.org

The Audigy2 is not really designed for an audiohile. Its designed for gamers. The Audigy2 is good for gamers but for sound quality it is the worst. I suggest Audiotrak Prodigy 7.1 (if you can find it) because it is designed for audiophile and it has a real 8 channel output. that can playback at 192 KHz at 24-bit audio resolution for each channel. After you get the Audiotrak Prodigy the speaker system Gigaworks s750 will not be very good. I suggest a sound system made by Adire Audio or by Vance Dickason at Parts Express. However, there is no player that outputs 8 channels. Only 6 channels will be heard even though alsa can output 8 channels.

Yes the Audigy2 Platinum is supported in Linux. A simple look at ALSA sound card database will tell that it is supported.