New Dios are 24/96 http://www.midiman.com/products/m-audio/dio2496.php ...and they have an optical connect. {Whether it's supported or not...} Audiophiles seem to have dropped in price a bit: http://www.midiman.com/products/m-audio/audiophile.php {I'm sure you can find them both at a much lower price and I doubt you can fault the sound.} Terratecs cards use the same chip, are supported, etc... http://www.musiciansfriend.com/srs7/sid=030824220601066092132254416194/g=re… It looks like the Mia's gotten support {Major + for linux sound}. Great sound... Mia's been discontinued... you can still find them pretty easy. http://space.virgilio.it/g_pochini@virgilio.it/ea.html You might check into the whole line. http://www.echoaudio.com/Products/Mia/index.php ~200.oo http://www.musiciansfriend.com/srs7/search/src=00633/g=home?q=echo+mia On another hand. The motherboard I'm using comes with spdif in and out, an ac97 codec, 6 channel sound, built in midi, firewire and USB2 {and smartcards, lan, raid, largish bus, etc}. Sound is excellent, setup is automatic under both Debian and RH9, it runs about $125-150 and the machine took me about 45 minutes to build. It's only 16 bit though. http://tw.giga-byte.com/MotherBoard/Products/Products_GA-7VAXP%20Ultra.htm Turtle beach has some cheapish cards and they had absolutely flat response 1o years ago. http://www.turtlebeach.com/site/products/santacruz/producthome.asp {I'm not sure what your budget looks like.} I have a Santa Cruz... It's supported under alsa {with hardware mixing} It sounds really good... It's only 16 bit. You might be able to find a cheapish Yamaha somewhere... It looks like most of them are supported. http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/

RTaylor wrote: Hello, try the edirol UA-1A, it's supported by alsa, and it's not really expansive, the price is the same as the other edirol UA-1D . http://www.edirol.com/products/info/ua1a.html http://www.nextag.com/serv/main/buyer/outpdir.jsp?doSearch=y&search=edi… (less expansive here than the UA-1D!!) ;-) best juto