sound cards

If discrete audio is dying, you'd never know it from the passionate responses we recently received when we asked whether you still use it.

Discrete video cards are still must-have components for every serious computer user, but integrated audio has largely displaced sound cards, even for enthusiasts.

The H Open: "Linux 2.6.31 will offer Kernel-Based Mode-Setting for Radeon graphics cards up to model X1950.

The developers have included new drivers for X-Fi sound cards and for Intel's "Next-Generation Graphics Device""

The H Open: "The Linux kernel will soon include a driver for Creative's X-Fi sound cards. After a long pause, the kernel development team are once again debating merging TuxOnIce."

Phoronix: "Support for the Creative X-Fi sound cards on Linux has been a mess to say the least. These high-end audio processors were released by Creative Labs about four years ago and there still isn't pleasant support for the X-Fi series on Linux"