Has anyone got "Creative Soundblaster X-Fi Surround 5.1 Pro" - (usb Interface) installed?
Has anyone tried this external usb sound blaster on ubuntu.
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I have bought M-Audio Bx5a deluxe Studio Monitors for my T61. I think the onboard Intel HD sound card will not do any justice to these speakers. So I am looking for an external sound interface. I particularly liked this one as it is not very expensive and it has a volume control (speaker lack a central-front volume knob). Has anyone been able to use this on ubuntu.
Also, if anyone would like to recommend me another option?
3 Answers
I use this sound card. It works out of the box (but I cannot test >2.0) in Ubuntu 10.10 (and it is working in Gentoo, Arch). But it doesn't works with Flash (YouTube,..) out of the box (because it uses ALSA instead of Pulseaudio).
It is also even possible somehow to get it work with OSS4 (used in *BSD, Solaris; available for Linux).
I'm trying to make it work with 5.1 but it's not straightforward. Volume knob doesn't work out of the box either but that's not that important.
2my has arrived today.
On 14.10 with pulse it works out of the box for 2.0 (volume knob not) (sound is awesome). At home I will test it with 5.1 so I will edit this to answer 3 y old question.
I got it working in 5.1, it was weird, first it detected only as 2.0 (pulse) and alsa as 5.1 (aplay -L), so i uninstalled pulse rebooted and i was able to select all posibilities of soundcard in pavucontrol. Then i installed back pulse, indicator-volume rebooted and now everything is detected correctly :-) (using ubuntu 14.10)
Home my answer will help to someone.
