[CVALE] Best Sound Blaster audio card for Debian Sarge?

[Gaijin]

Ian Sterling wrote:
 > any fairly recent version of Debian should have them available.

    I recently (or had a non-Linux friend)  installed Debian 
something-or-other r3.  CheapBytes advertised it as "Sarge," which was 
what I wanted.  Was running Woody a few years back, but a stay-over at 
my sister's house enabled one of her sons to trash it royally. <grins>  
For some odd reason, nearly my entire /etc directory ended up missing.  
Don't ask me how it happened, as I haven't a clue. <laughs>  (Yeah, he 
typed 'rm -a /*' and turned off the power before it finished.)  No I 
didn't!  I was dual booting Win95 and Unka Willy did it!  I swear!  
Seriously, I dunno how it happened, so I'm blaming my nephews. <grins>  
Anyway, Sarge is installed on a single partition, because I couldn't 
explain how I wanted it to my friend.  taskman was skipped, so there's 
just a bare-bones OS on the drive.  Once I have something reading the 
screen for me, it's on!  Even if I have to pipe a lynx dumt through 
htm2txt to read a web page, it's still on!  I despise this 30 minute 
Windows malarkey that much. <laughs>
    If it doesn't take a kernal recompile, or anything else that 
keyboard intensive, I should be able to script the thing into working.  
No other worries there.

 >  I've had several SB Live cards with that chipset in them, and they 
work flawlessly.

    Hmm.  I remember those, but back in my Woody days, there were a lot 
of requests for info to get them working.  I believe I'm running a 
2.4.something.33 kernal, so they've patched in a module for it?  Good 
deal.  Was running a 2.4.18 kernal in Woody, freshly released.  That's 
how long I've been offline.  The pre I-pod days. <grins>  Poor Lana Lang 
had just been sucked up by a tornado...Poor girl.

    Thank you for the info.  Should save me some hunting time.  I 
appreciate it.

    Best regards
       Michael