On Sun, 2020-03-29 at 20:09 +0200, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > 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 >
It's already merged upstream. The driver is now part of the normal kernel. I have no clue why it took so long, or who contributed the patches.
