Lars Schotte wrote:
CA0106 is supported, but I looked at the website and there is: http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Matrix:Vendor-Creative_Labs CA0106 Details [PCI] Digital/Analog input does not work yet. Needs more development work.
so ... that seems like line in doesnt work yet, but on the unofficial http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php/Ca0106 is " Capture from MIC an LINE IN input. " so looks like that already works, but maybe recently.
The opensrc.org entry is newer.
However, the snd-ca0106 driver doesn't know the VX model; there are reports that playback on the VX does not work at all (white noise) unless the card was initialized by the Windows driver, then rebooted into Linux.
so the question now is, which of these two - SB 5.1 VX or Asus Xonar. I have a debian stable (lenny) w/ 2.6.26 old kernel and I would prefer if the card were already supported by that kernel, so I dont need to make any changes to the system any more.
The Xonar D1 has a not-buggy driver since 2.6.27. I don't know Debian, but it looks as if newer backported kernels are available.
HTH Clemens