I managed to get a cheap sound card off of ebay for less than $7. This sound card has a name of Rocketfish 5.1 PCI, but lspci detects it as an Creative Labs CA0106 Soundblaster sound card. Before purchasing this sound card, I did some research to see if it worked properly with Linux. What I found is that many people had a problem getting this sound card to work with Linux. The problem seems to stem from the ALSA drivers. When I first installed the rocketfish sound card and tried to play sound, I got nothing but static. This rocketfish sound card does not seem to get along with the ALSA drivers.
So how do you get the Rocketfish sound card to work with Linux?
The simple answer is to install the OSS drivers and disable the ALSA drivers. This seems to be a easy fix, but not a long term one because I prefer ALSA drivers over OSS. With a little more research I found out that the rocketfish sound card does indeed work with ALSA drivers, but it was not consistent.
I will eventually try to get this sound card working with ALSA and give updates and procedures if I'm successful.
