> > for this card. Legacy hardware with no alsa support. May or may not be > > possible depending upon the asio vs directX mode of the windows driver. although i understand your point, i'd like to point out that there is more "legacy" h/w with ALSA support than there is with winXP driver support. what you want will not happen unless somebody in the wine project does something. thats unlikely, since wine is a user-space only effort (although they have fed back a few useful requests to the kernel). device drivers (in general) live in the kernel. --p