Hi!

At the moment i'm using an M-Audio Delta 2496 PCI Card. With Windows XP it has always been working fine.

I switched to Vista 64bit ago, and there ARE drivers, but as they're beta M-Audio sees no reason to release those for everyone. I got them through a warez forum (!) now, and they're working perfect, but I have been pis*ed on really much as it took a lot of time to find the drivers.

The M-Audio Beta driver club which you have to join in order to get the drivers doesn't respond on registration. It's a shame how they thread their costumers in my opionion.

The situation became worse when I installed Ubuntu 8.10 a few days ago; the card doesn't work at all.

Now I decided to sell my card on the bay in order to buy another one, which has a better support about drivers.

What must be:
- PCI
- good sound, no low cost and no creative please
- full Linux (Alsa) and Vista x64 support

And it would be nice if this card had an EAX 1/2 chip on it for gaming (I play a lot).

Can you do some recommendations?

Thanks

Are you sure it doesn't work? According to the ALSA soundcard matrix, it works with the snd-ice1712 module.

Charles

I know I got it to work with Kubuntu 8.04 anyway (dont ask me how), but there was the problem that drivers only supported one channel. This means, if I was listening to music I couldn't listen to a flash video in my browser for instance.

And I'm a newbie to linux, don't want to spend that much time and nerves into it..

Just thinkin about using the onBoard Realtek chip.

It sounds like you want a C-Media 8788 based card of some sort, it can be hard to find out what chipsets things are based on but as far as I know the Asus Xonar D2 is based on this chipset. There may also be some Auzentech X-Meridian's left in the channel but they've discontinued this card citing insufficient supply of the chip to meet demand.

Have the support windows games and are supported by an opensource driver in ALSA.

In other news pigs have been spotted doing formation stunt flying today, in other words Creative have released the source to their binary only driver under the GPL.

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=arti..._gift&num=1

If I understand you correctly you want multi-channel support. Your problem is that you are outputing to the card directly. You have several options, you can either setup ALSA to output to dmix instead:

http://alsa.opensrc.org/home/w/org/opensrc...itle=DmixPlugin

or use one of the sound servers, such as PulseAudio, ESD, aRtsd, etc.

Here is a link to Ubuntu and PulseAudio:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PulseAudio

Charles