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Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audigy (Gamer)
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Date of last review
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10
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57722
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07-10-2005
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$96.14
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9.2
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Description:
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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.
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Keywords:
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sound blaster audigy audio card
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/sbin/lspci output:
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Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy (rev 3).
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Connection Type:
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pci
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11-05-2003, 11:44 PM
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#1
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Registered: Oct 2002
Distribution: Gentoo x86_64 & PPC
Posts: 949
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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): $70.00 | Rating: 10
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Kernel (uname -r):
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2.4.22
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Slackware 9.1
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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:
snd-pcm-oss
snd-mixer-oss
snd-emu10k1
snd-pcm
snd-hwdep
snd-util-mem
snd-page-alloc
snd-rawmidi
snd-seq-device
snd-ac97-codec
gameport
ohci1394
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 :-)
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11-07-2003, 05:26 PM
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Registered: May 2003
Distribution: kubuntu 8.10
Posts: 593
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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): None indicated | Rating: 10
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Kernel (uname -r):
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2.4.22-21mdk
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mandrake 9.2
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Works with the alsa driver emu10k1 or the oss audigy.
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11-09-2003, 11:47 PM
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#3
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Registered: Feb 2002
Distribution: Ubuntu
Posts: 110
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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): $100.00 | Rating: 10
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Kernel (uname -r):
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2.4.20, 2.4.18-mdk
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Distribution:
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Slackware 9.0, Mandrake 8.2
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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.
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11-16-2003, 03:03 AM
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#4
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Registered: Sep 2003
Distribution: Fedora, RH 7.1-9.0
Posts: 68
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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): $105.00 | Rating: 10
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Kernel (uname -r):
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2.4.22
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Fedora Core & RedHat
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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'.
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12-01-2003, 07:17 AM
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#5
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Registered: Nov 2003
Posts: 9
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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): None indicated | Rating: 8
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Fedora
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compatible with Redhat 9 n Fedora Core 1... sound nice...
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02-10-2004, 04:43 PM
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Registered: Jan 2004
Distribution: Mandrake 9.2
Posts: 158
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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): None indicated | Rating: 10
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Kernel (uname -r):
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Distribution:
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Fedora Core 1, Mandrake 9.2
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This sound-card performed well on both Fedora Core 1 and Mandrake 9.2.
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04-23-2004, 12:16 PM
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#7
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Registered: Apr 2004
Distribution: Mandrake 10.0 Community
Posts: 3
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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): $99.00 | Rating: 5
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Kernel (uname -r):
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Linux Kernel 2.6.2
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Distribution:
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Mandrake 10.0 Community
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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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09-02-2004, 09:02 PM
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Registered: Apr 2003
Distribution: SUSE 9.1 personal, Yoper (1.0 & 2.*), Knoppix 3.6, Knoppix STD, Helix 1.4, Lycoris 1.3 (Amethyst)
Posts: 35
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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): $99.00 | Rating: 10
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Kernel (uname -r):
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2.6(?)
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SUSE 9.1 personal
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Just cant figure out how to get sound out of 4 speakers rather than 2. Or is it already doing what I want it to do?
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02-03-2005, 11:10 AM
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#9
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Registered: Feb 2005
Distribution: Ubuntu
Posts: 10
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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): $90.00 | Rating: 9
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Kernel (uname -r):
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2.6.10-1.737_FC3
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Distribution:
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Fedora Core 3
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This card has worked flawlessly since FC1. Multichannel does not seem to work very well though, although that may be a PEBKAC error :)
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07-10-2005, 07:15 PM
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Registered: Jan 2005
Distribution: Gentoo
Posts: 11
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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): $109.99 | Rating: 10
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Kernel (uname -r):
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2.6.12-gentoo-r4
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Distribution:
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Gentoo 2005.0
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Great crystal-clear sound and great support with the in-kernel ALSA modules.
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