Langa has been a bit down for a while now on reporting and such so I was suspicious when I read this and while linux is not exactly the best at plug and play for all environs, I doubt he looked in the right places to solve his issues. One of the wonderful things about linux is that if you look hard enough for a solution, unless the first instance of the problem was bon 5 minutes ago, someone has a fix for it. After all, it's not like he couldn't have just gone out and gotten a sound card that worked.