On Fri, 2004-12-17 at 16:21 -0500, John Check wrote: > I've been pretty happy with what it does but lately the driver has been > dropping notes and that's unacceptable. I know it'll get fixed, but it'd be > nice if all my eggs weren't in one basket. > Can you reproduce this consistently? This is a known bug but no one has been able to find a good test case. > One of the things about a mature production process is price goes down. > It's still a 16 bit card and they sell a 24 bit one for less (of course that > one is missing the AC97 mixer section). Yeah the 24 bit SBLive card is completely different and a POS IMHO. The Audigy2 is a 24 bit card that retains the good parts of the SBLive (hw mixing, DSP, wavetable). But it's more expensive. And the 24/96 is not yet supported in Linux (though it should be soon). Lee