> Any help on deciding between an SBLive 5.1 Digital and an Audigy 1 > would > be much appreciated with regard to good driver support for 5.1 sound.
I have both the SB Live and an Audigy 1 and as far as Linux goes I don't think there is much of a difference in driver feature support. I would go with whatever is cheaper. Jason On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 16:59, Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: > Ben Sparks said: > > I have a Turtle Beach Santa Cruz and I've heard that ALSA support for > > the card is not any better than what is available in the kernel. I'm > > about to recompile mykernel with support for my card. I know it uses > > the Crystal Soundfusion cs461x driver is there any thing else that I > > need to add? > > I have this card and am thoroughly disappointed by it till now. The > kernel driver provides very poor sound and also lacks concurrent sound so > only one application can use it at any one time; applications will often > complain that it doesn't allow the application to configure small enough > sound fragments and so gaming sound is aweful. ALSA although overcomes > these problems has a multichannel bug where either 5.1 sound doesn't > provide any bass whatsoever or one or more speakers are mute; this hasn't > been fixed in rc7 either. Search on forums for details of problems that > people have had. Also, I had quite a few problems when I discontinued the > use of ALSA in favour of kernel sound. Package installations were failing > left, right and centre because they were looking for alsa libraries which > weren't there. I guess it is to be expected since I didn't recompile the > entire system with USE=-alsa. > > Luckily, there's a third alternative: http://www.opensound.com provides an > effective driver for this card at a cost but there is also a time limited > trial of the driver for download. This driver I believe overcomes the > drawbacks of the above two (kernel + alsa) but my personal experience with > these drivers was hellish: beware that when you start the sound after > driver installation it will start at full volume and after every fresh > boot it will start at full volume. > > My solution will be to switch to a SoundBlaster Live 5.1 Digital or an > Audigy 1 as soon as I've decided between them. Creative seems to have the > best driver support. > > Any help on deciding between an SBLive 5.1 Digital and an Audigy 1 would > be much appreciated with regard to good driver support for 5.1 sound. > > Many thanks > Dhruba Bandopadhyay > > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
