First, I personally wouldn't call it a Soundblaster. That is part of its name,
but calling it that might put people (me, for one!) in mind of the original
SBs (1989-1995, SB16, SB AWE32, etc.). I usually call Creative cards by the
last part of the name, e.g. AWE32, Live!, Audigy, X-Fi.
And the problem is that Creative does not care about Linux in the least,
and the only drivers for X-Fi for ALSA is an out-of-tree beta (more like
alpha, really) and an alpha, incomplete port of the OSSv4 X-Fi driver.
The driver someone else pointed to is the Audigy driver.
See this[1] recent Phoronix article for more details.
I have boycotted Creative for a long time, due to their anti-competitive
practices, poor driver support of Linux, and even Vista(!), is just one
more reason not to buy Creative.
[1] http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NzE2Ng
Thanks for the input -
Do you recommend another sound card that is a pci-express for a linux system ???
Do you have url where i can buy it ???
I was hoping to use this one, if possible because i already spent the money on it .
thanks