Hi,

I'm in the market for a new sound card and need your advice.

I'd like to have full-duplex audio in pd.

I plan to get a Sound Blaster 64 Gold for 100$, and then use the

commercial full-duplex OSS-Linux drivers. (I successfully compiled the 2.0.36 kernel with OSS-free drivers but they're half-duplex only.)

Does anyone use these two products?

It would make more sense to buy a PCI sound card, but if the drivers are

not available for Linux, then I don't have much choice. Unless there are any reasonably priced PCI based cards which have full-duplex support in Linux?

The PCI SBLive! cards won't have Linux drivers for a while, since

Creative is sitting on the hardware info which is necessary to write the drivers until the new year.

Any suggestions would be appreciated,

Michael Lechasseur