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The Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audigy runs great under my system (LFS 4.0) using the ALSA sound drivers and installed according to the detailed instructions located at the alsa-project.org website.
Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): $70.00 | Rating: 10
Kernel (uname -r):
2.4.22
Distribution:
Slackware 9.1
I bought this card a week ago and have been very happy with it. The Audigy lives up to its well deserved reputation as the ultimate in PC Audio.
To make installation easy on myself, I did a complete reinstall of Slackware to see how it would do with autodetection. Surprise! It worked perfectly. I usually run a custom compiled kernel (I haven't got around to doing it over again since the reinstall), but here are the modules I have loaded by default supporting the Audigy:
Just how many of these are actually necessary, I don't know yet. I'll try to repost after I play with my kernel a bit.
As far as quality goes, I couldn't be happier. I consider myself to be an audiophile with an accurate ear from playing guitar for 16 yrs, and the sound reproduction from this card is totally amazing. I only wish I had better speakers (using Logitech Z340's right now) but I will match this card with a set of Klipsch Pro Media 5.1's by the end of the year. Should be amazing :-)
Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): $100.00 | Rating: 10
Kernel (uname -r):
2.4.20, 2.4.18-mdk
Distribution:
Slackware 9.0, Mandrake 8.2
I have the SB Audigy MP3+. There is no difference between the hardware (wish it had a hardware MP3 decoder but Creative is cheap.) of all the Audigy series. No problems with install. I have been using this card for nearly two years now with zero problems. I first installed it under Mandrake 8.2 with the drivers downloadable from opensource.creative.com. Then, I installed slackware-current (9.0b) in December 2002 and it was auto-detected with no problems at all. I highly recommend this card. With a great pair of speakers, audiophiles like myself will not be disappointed.
Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): $105.00 | Rating: 10
Kernel (uname -r):
2.4.22
Distribution:
Fedora Core & RedHat
Have used this card in a Dell Precision system for 2 years on RedHat installs, and now working with Fedora. It has worked flawlessly for me from RH7.3 through 9, and Fedora Core 1.
I also use the 2.6 test kernels, and it works beautifully with ALSA, with and without OSS emulation. I have tested it on -test3 through -test9 with great success. The 2.6 driver is now 'snd_emu10k1'.
Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): $99.00 | Rating: 5
Kernel (uname -r):
Linux Kernel 2.6.2
Distribution:
Mandrake 10.0 Community
It was detected under Mandrake 10 but the sound just doesn't come up. Maybe it's not config'd properly, either way, this is making my decent into Linux harder. As they always say, if there is a challenge, do it.
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