I'm totally enthused about Dell shipping machines with Ubuntu. There is only one thing that's keeping me from ordering... I need to be able to run ALSA and JACK on this machine (I'm looking at the XPS 410N).
The sound card is specified as "integrated 7.1"... which I take to mean at least three stereo outputs on a motherboard integrated card. Are all these outputs recognized by ALSA/JACK? Will real time audio processing work (assuming I install the appropriate kernel)?
If anyone has tried this, or if Dell has given an official word on the matter and I missed it, I'd really appreciate it if someone clued me in. If not, just knowing what to look up in the ALSA compatibility matrix would be helpful.