Hello, You bring up a great point regarding driver support, and going forward I would not buy a Creative product. Not just because of their substandard Linux support but also for their fiasco with crippling their drivers for Vista users. I agree that for the most part the Linux community in general is great about offering support for most hardware. A few items have had persistent challenges - one of which is X-Fi support. I believe what you're hearing is not so much anger but frustration and disappointment about the reality that while Ubuntu can almost completely wean us off Windows (~98% of the time or more), not having proper sound support is a deal breaker for many. It's aggravating to have a robust, reliable OS like Ubuntu hobbled by this limitation. If you take even a cursory look at the Ubuntu help boards you'll see that this issue comes up frequently and without resolution. For what its worth there was one poster that gave detailed instructions that involved compiling the kernel yourself and using a modified version of the Creative drivers. I've personally tried this and it can get you marginal 2-channel sound, but it stutters and many features still don't work. I'd be happy to contribute to a reverse engineering effort of the X-Fi hardware, I've got some marginal programming experience however I've not seen an organized effort to make this happen - not even from ALSA. There's a substantial community of users who would really like to see this hurdle overcome. If there is a way for us to contribute, please let us know how? Cheers, ~Greg ---------------------------------------- > From: