Looking for a compatible soundcard. . .

[chensington]

Okay, I probably have the worst possible hardware/software configuration for finding a compatible sound card: I need a PCI Express card that will work with Ubuntu Linux on AMD64 architecture.

I'd also specifically like to know whether or not any of the PCI Express sound cards from Creative would work with this setup.

Can anyone help me out with this? Thanks.

 

[dgatwood]

Okay, I probably have the worst possible hardware/software configuration for finding a compatible sound card: I need a PCI Express card that will work with Ubuntu Linux on AMD64 architecture.

I'd also specifically like to know whether or not any of the PCI Express sound cards from Creative would work with this setup.

Is this for recording, or is it just for normal day-to-day use? If you're planning to use it for recording, I wouldn't suggest anything from Creative. Those are basically designed for gaming, not recording.

What I'd suggest for recording is a PCIe FireWire card (if you don't already have FireWire ports) and a FireWire interface.

If you're just using this for normal use, Creative maintains a list of which of their hardware is supported under Linux.

http://opensource.creative.com/soundcard.html

I'm not quite sure how to interpret that, though. You'll probably have to email Creative and ask them.

 

[blazingstrings]

Weird question.

Why wouldn't he wan't a PCI Express card like a Delta 44? They all work with Linux......

 

[dgatwood]

Weird question.

Why wouldn't he wan't a PCI Express card like a Delta 44? They all work with Linux......

Delta 44 is PCI, not PCI Express. PCI Express slots do not support parallel PCI cards. I'm assuming the original poster has a motherboard that only contains PCIe slots and contains no PCI slots (e.g. any Mac built since late 2005).

 

[blazingstrings]

I'm sorry I got PCIe mixed up with PCI-X My bad......