Turtle Beach Montego II runs on the au8830 audio chipset. Drivers are available at aureal.sf.net. I haven't tried anything fancy with them. Audio is output through /dev/dsp just like anything else.

I purchased this card about 3-4 years ago when I was still using Windows.

Rear speaker support through ALSA seems to be shady, at best. It would seem that there is something that prevents the front and rear channels (and LFE/Center) from working simultaneously. If anyone has any more luck, please let me know what you've done. I've tried every possible mixer setting with no luck.

For now, I've opted to use my Aureal cards instead, because of their superior drivers, though I would love to use my Santa Cruz again due to its spectacular audio quality.

ALSA and OSS drivers are an option. I've had the best experiences with 4-Front's OSS drivers, though I would prefer to use ALSA.

In many ways, 4-Front's OSS commercial drivers seem to have better support for this card than the ALSA drivers. However, they don't support the hardware mixing (Dev Mazumdar (of 4-Front) insists that they have no interest in implementing it in favor of their in-house Virtual Mixer software mixer), and they don't support the standard ALSA API without an unsupported plugin.

never had a problem using cs46x drivers with either oss or alsa. excellent sound quality.

Hello,
I just got mandrake 10.1 and everything works great but my soundcard. It worked good when I had redhat 9. It is still detected as the same card as it was with Red Hat 9 and I can play cd's through the cd player and they have perfect sound but if I try to play a game or anything sound does not work. Can you guys help me out?

Thanks,

Dustin

This card was stock installed in my system. I've always loved the quality of it, and even now it still works and sounds great (after 8 years of use).

It's always worked great with Windows so I was really hoping it would work just as well in Linux. It was recognized right away during install and works very well. Though only front is detected, I'm going to try installing driver that should enable all outputs.