riptide sound card driver for linux

[Azure Dreamer]

hi
i bought a pavilion 8509 and tried to install linux.
unfortunately no drivers for riptide sound card were available. i searched on
the web and found out that Constantin Lazarev had
developed drivers for the riptide soundcard. on mailing i found out that he had
sent it to hp and could download it from their site. i couldnt find it at their
site.
HELP ME..

[Patrick Watts_1]

To my knowledge, there is currently no linux support for the Riptide audio
card, although 4Front seems to indicate that they are working to support it
under their OSS product. There is no Riptide driver/module for Linux available
for Download from HP.