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A Year Later, X-Fi Drivers Still Horrific
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Well, now that Atheros went open, nVidia released a new driver, and Dell got broadcom to get on it... Does this make Creative The Most Troublesome Holdout?
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Originally posted by conholster View PostOMG!!! Will that work? If so I could connect my 5.1 on one card and headset into the other!
So, plug your headset into the Audigy and use that on Linux, and hook your surround-stuff up to the X-Fi and use that on Windows.
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Originally posted by oyvind View PostPut in both sound cards if you've got an available slot .
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Originally posted by conholster View PostI got a Audigy4 ATM its pretty good...but I'd really like a x-fi xtremegamer, which is supposed to be great for gaming on windows. My only worry is if I dont get any sound on linux with it...
EDIT: If anyone wants to trade I'm all for it
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I got a Audigy4 ATM its pretty good...but I'd really like a x-fi xtremegamer, which is supposed to be great for gaming on windows. My only worry is if I dont get any sound on linux with it...
EDIT: If anyone wants to trade I'm all for it
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Don't buy newer generation Creative sound cards if you're planning on using Linux. Just don't. There are other high-end options that I'm sure are better supported by ALSA. For casual/simple audio needs, the integrated HD audio chipsets on today's motherboards are getting pretty good, and they usually work fairly well with ALSA.
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A Year Later, X-Fi Drivers Still Horrific
Phoronix: A Year Later, X-Fi Drivers Still Horrific
After Creative Labs Duped Linux For Vista, it was just a year ago that they had released their X-Fi Linux driver. That initial driver in 2007 had only supported 64-bit Linux, wasn't targeted at newer versions of GCC, and had a whole host of other problems...
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