On Sun, 2020-03-29 at 17:36 +0200, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > hi, > > The onboard sound chip of my new motherboard is ...<hrrrm>... > > I am looking for a soundcard. I came accross the > > Creative Sound Blaster Z 5.1 > > the problem with the soundcard is: I can find a > CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_CA0132 > setting in the kernel configuration file (not set yet of course) and > on the other hand I can find a lot of people complaining about not > getting this beast to work under Linux. The CA0132 is the sound chip > of that card. > And I dont know how well the support is, if it will work at all. > > If someone on this list ownes this card I would be very happy for > a short info about whether it works und Linux, whether there are > any restrictions and how well the support is. > > Thanks a lot in advance for any helpful advice! > :) > > Cheers! > Meino >
Hello, First of all, I have a slightly different board, called ZxR. My experience is that it used to not work with linux at all. For the longest time. And then, simply over night, it started working. And working ok, by my standards. https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Sound-Blaster-ZxR-Linux Here's an article about it. Anyway, as a ZxR owner, I didn't find anything to complain about. It's what I came to expect from creative products. Like the live and audigy boards. Don't work, for the longest time, and boom, a day comes and they start working. A bit awkward at first, to adjust to the new controls. It happened with Live! and audigy too. Treble and bass. Now it's a x-bass control thing. 5 things with sliders to control, an equalizer control thing. It gives you a little more control. It's like, I never used to run alsa-mixer. Now I kinda have to because the sound ain't right. But it's not my sound board. With ac97 you never notice stuff like this, and even if you do, you can't change anything about. this movie is too bass-ey. or too treble-ey. Now you constantly start alsa-mixer to adjust the controls to sound just right. and you can. So overall I can confirm at least 2 theories. 1, it didn't work for the longest time (I seem to recall to buy it in 2016 and it was not new then). And it started working at the end of 2018. And it's working just fine now. Not one problem. Other than the OCD controls. always fiddling with them.
