When will distros start supporting the Audigy?

[Flatline]

Anyone heard anything?
Right now I'm running SuSe 8.0, and as far as I know it's the only distro that natively supports the Audigy cards...they came out well before some of the new distros, so I'm starting to wonder when some of these distros are going to get to it...

 

[Electrode]

You can add Audigy support to whatever distro you prefer. Get ALSA or RML's emu10k1 driver.

Both of these require you to have the source for the kernel you are running. The latter requires you to patch the kernel source. Both are pretty self-explanatory if you ask me.

The ALSA driver has more features, but I couldn't get my rear speakers working with it.

 

[Flatline]

Partially, at least, I'm saying that it bugs me that I have to recompile my kernel to support a sound card that's been on the market for a year...

 

[Chaotic42]

Originally posted by: Flatline
Partially, at least, I'm saying that it bugs me that I have to recompile my kernel to support a sound card that's been on the market for a year...

Then you should keep bugging the company until they release things that work 100%, and ASAP.

Either that or write your own drivers 😉

 

[andrey]

In my case both SuSE 8.0 and Mandrake 8.2 both supported my Audigy out-the-box. I didn't have to install any additional drivers.

 

[Nothinman]

Partially, at least, I'm saying that it bugs me that I have to recompile my kernel to support a sound card that's been on the market for a year...

It bugs me that companies don't release drivers for their products for Linux, or atleast hardware specs so someone else can. And that'll only change if you voice your need/want for the drivers/specs to the companies like Creative. Or you could always help with the development of the Linux drivers yourself if you it's not moving fast enough for you...