I really like the SB zx card myself - I think the sound quality is brilliant and it solved some problems I was having with the onboard sound. Mic work here only for me (1rst jack from left side)ĭont forget to look into alsamixer if one or both HP/Speaker & AMic1/DMic are enable, & next if pulseaudio is not muted also in pavucontrol, if you use pulseaudio. My first creative labs sound card was on early 1990, & now this is definitivly my last from this company.Īnalog stereo work here only for me with HD-audio connector from the case The positive thing, now i have tested Asus sound card, a little more expensive, sound is great with my Sennheiser headphones, a better quality than sound blaster Z for audiophiles, & work fine under gnu/linux.

YOU CANNOT BE IN PEACE with this ****** sound card.ĭont hope to much from creative labs, they dont care about gnu/linux, sell your ca0132 card & buy one Asus xonar. Sometime i need to shutdown computer, wait 5 sec & restart if rmmod is busy, rmmod/modprobe is the first thing to do on desktop, else if you open something using audio before, you need to shutdown, restart computer, login, rmmod & modprobe, & only after you need to check if pulse audio is muted or not, if alsa is ok etc. Only front analog audio, & mic jack on card are working, opticals, all others jacks & 600ohms jack are not working for me. Managing sound is already tricky when everything work fine, but with CA0132 soundblaster z, this is really like hell :s No matter if it is alsa or pulse or direct hw. Some 1 know how to at least use 48 or 96 khrz? Now i have a question relating 24 bits / 96 khrzġrst i use Audacious beceause it is easier to swap between pulseaudio & alsaĬat /proc/asound/card0/pcm0p/sub0/hw_paramsĬat /proc/asound/Creative/pcm0p/sub0/hw_paramsīut if i use pulseaudio i see 16 bits in use instead of 24bit

& i have sound on my headphone on front panel port only, after this. Sudo kill `ps uax |grep pulseaudio | grep -v grep | awk ''` sudo rmmod snd-hda-intel sleep 3 sudo modprobe snd-hda-intel

Sound blaster z mic not working