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Creative Labs (Ensoniq) Sound Blaster AudioPCI (ES1370)
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4 35604 08-08-2006
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100% of reviewers $20.00 6.5



Description: I pulled this sound card out of an old Gateway at work before scrapping the tower. I needed a working sound card when I discovered that my integrated card did not work.

It works with ALSA and a 2.6 kernel.

If you want to enjoy sound, you will have to use either a set of powered speakers or headphones. Volume control in Linux is not refined. If you set the volume to maximum, there will be many artifacts. Keep the volume low at around 20% maximum. Use the volume knob on the speakers to adjust the sound.

If you have unpowered speakers, like me, you can hear what you are listening to, but it is nothing like what you would expect from MS Windows using the same speakers.
Keywords: ensoniq es1370 sound card
/sbin/lspci output: 00:0a.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq ES1370 [AudioPCI]
Subsystem: Unknown device 4942:4c4c
Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 32, IRQ 12
I/O ports at e400 [size=64]
Chipset: 1370
Connection Type: PCI


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Old 06-04-2005, 03:59 AM   #1
michael@greg:~>
 
Registered: Mar 2005
Distribution: SuSE 9.2 Pro / Zenwalk 1.2 / Minislack 1.0.1
Posts: 12

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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): None indicated | Rating: 6

Kernel (uname -r): 2.6.11.6
Distribution: Minislack 1.0.1



Follow the directions for installing ALSA for Minislack and the card will work without further configuration.

Amplification is poor, but quality is acceptable at low volumes.

Use the volume knob on your speakers to adjust the volume.

With unpowered speakers I can hear system events (in SuSE). I use headphones if I need to listen to something carefully.

I salvaged this card from a broken machine.
 
Old 09-04-2005, 04:54 PM   #2
corbintechboy
 
Registered: Sep 2003
Distribution: Chakra
Posts: 458

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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): $20.00 | Rating: 10

Kernel (uname -r): 2.4,2.6
Distribution: All


This is a great sound card for linux. Works with every distro I have tried.
 
Old 11-04-2005, 07:44 AM   #3
Metalbarthug
 
Registered: Oct 2004
Distribution: Suse 10.0
Posts: 57

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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): None indicated | Rating: 3

Kernel (uname -r): 2.6.13
Distribution: Suse 10.0 OSS


For some reason, I cannot install this card with Suse 10.0 despite success in 8.0 and 9.1.

Going through YAST, ti detects the card but then gives me a message like "An error occured and this cannot be installed"

Bit annoyed as I cannot play CDs without this Card - my Mobo (ASUS TEK 915) does not have a sound jumber to connect an audio cable to.
 
Old 08-08-2006, 05:02 PM   #4
hellinside
 
Registered: Aug 2006
Posts: 0

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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): None indicated | Rating: 7

Kernel (uname -r):
Distribution: RedHat Enterprise Linux4 ES


This card is great. Nice sound quality and compitablity. I've been using it since 2002 and it is still working great. Fron RedHat 7.0 to RedHat Enterprise linux4 ES... I've tried it and it never let me down. Just having problem testing with Fedora Core5. Otherwise it is great. The sad thing is Creative Labs has already decleared it as outdated.
 




  



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