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And to what extent does this card have support in Linux?

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It exists, though the newer the better as far as this is concerned. The methods of getting it working in Ubuntu 8 & 9 were kludgey, but worked. Strictly speaking, there is driver support. Whether or not the sound applications can use it may be another story.

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Since there's driver support, shouldn't alsa provide the required abstraction for the sound applications so they can use it? – Neil Oct 19 '10 at 4:46
@Neil For Alsa-using applications that would be the case. The trick appears to be stereo vs 5.1 support, the support for that is unclear. – sysadmin1138 Oct 19 '10 at 5:03
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Mine worked (tested on ubuntu 10.04 & 10.10 ). But to get multichannel it needs to be connected when the computer is being powered on. I have issues also - mine would shut off during 30-90 min. of playback. During driver initialization it sends a spike to the amplifier. Looks like the firmware/hardware/software is not doing well to prevent it. Don`t know yet why.

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