Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: $100.00 | Rating: 7
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Kernel (uname -r):
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2.4.22
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Distribution:
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Slackware 9.1
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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.
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