Or would be if I could get the sound to work.  I had this problem with Ubuntu a previous try.  The sound card is integrated into the ABIT AN8 SLI motherboard which is no big issue for me as it bypasses everything via SPDIF directly to the Logitech DTS/THX 5.1 decoder etc.

Theory being have a good amp and bypass the sound card.  Worked well in XP, passingly in Vista, and dodo dead in Ubuntu.  Now when then first came up I also tried Suse and had pure sound raining down upon me, so what the frak was Ubuntu up to.

Well it seems since then not a lot!  And the resources on sound in Linux are appalling thin on the ground.  This document gave me some good starting points and I’ll tell you how I did it in the next post.