in their mythfrontend?

I've found that there only seems to be a couple of asus pci sound cards supported in linux. Too bad there's not more competition there because PCI slots are getting rare on today's motherboards.

In my case I'm stuck with a creative labs sound card eating up one of my 3 available PCI slots (tuners in the other 2).

There appear to be a couple of PCI-e tuner cards available now, and there's always the HDHomerun that takes no slots at all (I just got one to add to my 3 PCI tuners and 1 PCI sound card).

I was looking at pcie sound cards for my current build and got bad vibes all around (har!). It seems that the pcie slot isn't well suited for sound.

I ended up going with the HT Omega Striker (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16829271001) (CMI8770 chipset) PCI card. Analog surround and optical stereo work out-of-the-box with my Z-5500's. I haven't set up a52 so I can send surround through the optical yet.

Just to confirm, does the Omega Striker work with Linux? 5.1 or 7.1?

I'm liking the card a lot from what I can read so far, their site say nothing about Linux so thats why Im asking :)

ELP

Looks like the chipset is recently supported in the kernel (2.6.24):

http://www.linuxhq.com/kernel/v2.6/24-rc4/sound/pci/Kconfig

So Mythmaster: How's that omega striker working out in your myth rig?

Just to confirm, does the Omega Striker work with Linux? 5.1 or 7.1?

I'm liking the card a lot from what I can read so far, their site say nothing about Linux so thats why Im asking :)

ELP

It works great! It uses the snd_cmipci alsa driver (it's cmedia 8770 chipset). http://www.cmedia.com.tw/forums/viewtopic.php?p=4479&sid=c10a0fd2ba68995463643d563ce45046.

I don't have 7.1, but it should work via analog. As I mentioned above, 5.1 analog and stereo optical spdif immediately work with the cmipci driver. AC3 passthrough in MythTV, etc. does, as well. (I don't have any DTS content to test yet). I've since configured alsa to dolby digital encode everything with a52 and upmix stereo signials, so all sound goes through optical spdif to my Z-5500's.

Edit: I configured a52 before trying passthrough, so not sure if it was necessary.

Im at 2.6.22 (7.10) guess I may need to upgrade to get it working.

ELP