On 03/29 08:41, Alexandru N. Barloiu wrote: > 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. > > >
Hi Alexandru, Thanks a lot for the info. One question: Do you update your system -- the kernel especially -- on a regular basis? I want to sort out, whether the card "suddenly" work due to lucky circumstances (which I am not able to reconstruct possibly) or due to a better support by the kernel and its drivers. I think the latter is more likely... Cheers! Meino
