What sound cards work?

I have been trying to get multimedia working on my arch machine; I finally gave up on the on-board sound and bought a SoundBlaster, which I read worked in other machines. Unfortunately, I got the SoundBlaster Live 24 bit, which, while supported under ALSA (theoretically), sounds like garbage.
I've done a fair amount of Googling, but people seem reluctant to say that any particular card works well. Since there's a lot of "it depends on what you are using it for", I'm wondering if any sound cards actually work well under Linux.
If you play DVDs or other movies on your Arch machine;
1. What sound card are you using;
2. What applications do you use it with;
3. Are you generally satisfied with the sound;
4. What aren't you satisfied with?
I'm hoping for better info before I part with more $$$. Thanks in advance.

Good morning tmadhavan,
tmadhavan wrote:
nggalai I'm sure we've had this problem and discussion before, but how on earth do you get surround sound with that module?
I'm using cs46xx as well, can't get surround. I even went out and bought a SB, only to find it was the 24bit version which is effectively useless.
Are you using any special scripts or .asoundrc files or anything?
Well, I only get surround sound with Xine--all other applications (including totem, which should use the xine-libs) stick with two-channel sound. In Xine, it's as easy as selecting 4.1 from the speakers dropdown; don't forget to un-mute PCM1 and the surround channels in alsamixer, and that's that. I didn't change anything in the alsa scripts or alsa module for the kernel.
Mind, this only works for Dolby Digital 5.1 DVD. Dolby Surround will stick to two channels as Xine doesn't come with a Dolby Surround decoder for copyright reasons (at least it seems so).
93,
-Sascha.rb

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This guide will install and setup the Echo Mia (Midi) under Arch using ALSA.
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will do the trick.
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$ pacman -Q alsa-utils
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wget ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/driver/alsa-driver-1.0.x.tar.bz2
wget ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/firmware/alsa-firmware-1.0.x.tar.bz2
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tar xjvf alsa-firmware-1.0.x
tar xjvf alsa-tools-1.0.x
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cd ../alsa-firmware-1.0.x
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Now we need to add the snd-mia module to the modules line in /etc/rc.conf. If there are other sound modules active, that conflict with the snd-mia module, disable them. In my case, I had to disable my snd-hda-intel, prefixing it with a '!'.
Now, we have to edit some configuration files.
This should be the only content of ~/.asoundrc:
pcm.mia {
type hw
card 0
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type hw
card 0
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# ALSA portion
alias char-major-116 snd
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# module options should go here
# OSS/Free portion
alias char-major-14 soundcore
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alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
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alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss
Now would be the time to reboot.
After rebooting, make sure that the snd-mia module was loaded.
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