Alsa supported soundcards

[Tony Monaghan]

This is a great place to start for information on how to configure your soundcard with Alsa.

http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php/Sound_cards

[Bennett]

I've had good straight "out of the box" ALSA experiences with a variety of cards - M-Audio, Tascam, and other mobo embedded Intel and nVidia stuff. Depending on the distro, however, some require a bit of tweaking but nothing particularly difficult.

Check out this page if you use firewire - http://freebob.sourceforge.net/index.php/Main_Page