Does anyone know of any driver that fully supports the Santa Cruz sound card? The card works fine, but sound is only put out through my front 2 speakers. I've checked out the OSS (www.opensound.com) driver that supposedly supports the Santa Cruz and 5.1 but I think its a bit ridiculous to have to pay $20 for a driver. Anyone who has had any experience with Linux and a Santa Cruz card your comments are much appreciated.

Hmmmm... Have you tried searching for a driver on linuxhardware.net and sourceforge.net? Especially on SF, there's been a recent outburst of OpenSource drivers for hardware that doesn't have Linux support...

I only found info for 2 of the Santa Cruz cars in the kernel config. I went looking because I've got a Guillemot card that uses a C-media chipset that can come with jacks enough for 2,4,8,16 speakers, so I thought maybe you had the same and it was pre-compiled (as is my kernel) for 2 speakers only, but that seems not to be the case. To find out exactly what the chipset of your card is: "lspci -v"

You may want to try out the ALSA modules, they're not included in the kernel by default yet, although Mandrake and I think SuSe uses them by default, and they might support your card.

Cheers,

Finegan