PCI Express and Soundblast

I just got a new machine that has PCI Express card slots in it. I am new to this technology so I have a total noob question. Can you use soundblaster cards in a PCI Express slot? And on a larger scheme, can you use PCI cards in PCI Express slots?
Thanks,
-murk

As everybody said... No. PCI-express and PCI are not really compatible.
And I'd like to reply on the posts regarding PCI-express soundcards. If any card like that would be produced, I guess we'd need mainboards with more PCI-E slots than we have now. Now it's all PCI-E on GPU's and 2 PCI-E slots for crossfire/SLI setu
ps.
Gi'ven I want to have a decent gaming machine in the foreseeable future, I'd need atleast 3 if not 4 PCI-E slots. Something like a Physics processing unit comes to mind, 2 GPU's and a soundcard... which would also conclude in a lot of users should be upgrading their systems to a higher substandard then now. Upgrading is fun and all, but if they people can't afford to upgrade that often, most companies would stay pretty low.
That's just my 2 cents. But seeing the developments running wild regarding computers I wouldn't be too surprised if we'd see it happen soon.

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Using:
cat /etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf
options snd_hda_intel=0
options snd_ctxfi index=1
Doesn't work for me
0 = Card: HDA Intel
Chip: Realtek AL662 rev1
alsamixer -c 1
invalid card index: 1
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total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Jan 11 22:46 snd_ctxfi -> ../../snd_ctxfi
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Jan 11 22:46 snd_hda_codec -> ../../snd_hda_codec
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Jan 11 22:46 snd_hda_codec_realtek -> ../../snd_hda_codec_realtek
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Jan 11 22:46 snd_hda_codec_si3054 -> ../../snd_hda_codec_si3054
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Jan 11 22:46 snd_hda_intel -> ../../snd_hda_intel
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Jan 11 22:46 snd_hwdep -> ../../snd_hwdep
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Jan 11 22:46 snd_mixer_oss -> ../../snd_mixer_oss
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Jan 11 22:46 snd_pcm -> ../../snd_pcm
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Jan 11 22:46 snd_pcm_oss -> ../../snd_pcm_oss
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Jan 11 22:46 snd_rawmidi -> ../../snd_rawmidi
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Jan 11 22:46 snd_seq -> ../../snd_seq
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Jan 11 22:46 snd_seq_device -> ../../snd_seq_device
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Jan 11 22:46 snd_seq_oss -> ../../snd_seq_oss
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Jan 11 22:46 snd_timer -> ../../snd_timer
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Jan 11 22:46 snd_usb_audio -> ../../snd_usb_audio
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snd_usb_audio 73210 0
snd_usb_lib 16183 1 snd_usb_audio
snd_rawmidi 18676 1 snd_usb_lib
snd_hda_codec_si3054 3862 1
snd_seq_dummy 1439 0
snd_hda_codec_realtek 250244 1
snd_seq_oss 29023 0
snd_seq_midi_event 5316 1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq 50558 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device 5181 4 snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_hda_intel 21586 0
snd_hda_codec 63659 3 snd_hda_codec_si3054,snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel
snd_hwdep 6340 2 snd_usb_audio,snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm_oss 39011 0
snd_mixer_oss 17299 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_ctxfi 90683 0
snd_pcm 70318 6 snd_usb_audio,snd_hda_codec_si3054,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_ctxfi
snd_timer 18799 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd 57408 15 snd_usb_audio,snd_rawmidi,snd_hda_codec_si3054,snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_ctxfi,snd_pcm,snd_timer
snd_page_alloc 7033 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
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Last edited by greenfish (2010-06-28 11:45:46)

As of 2.6.34 and alsa-lib 1.0.23-1, alsa-utils 1.0.23-2, xfi notebook is finally working for me!!!
Last edited by greenfish (2010-06-28 11:45:24)

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