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Testing the Audigy

Posted by timothy on from the long-way-from-soundblaster dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes: "The Audigy is Creative's latest Soundcard range, a long overdue upgrade to the aging Live! range and coming in a year where Creative have faced some of their stiffest competition since the Aureal Vortex 2 was released. 3D Spotlight's complete review of the Audigy Player covers pretty much everything you will want to know, from Drivers to API Support, Connectivity & Performance Conclusions." The review doesn't mention how the Audigy works under any open source operating systems, though.

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  1. Re:What's wrong with Live!? by Brian+Stretch · · Score: 4, Flamebait

    What's wrong with the Live!? It pollutes the PCI bus with noise, which is why it's a frequent source of PCI DMA I/O corruption, particularly (but not exclusively) on VIA chipset boards. I've found the Turtle Beach Santa Cruz to be an excellent, trouble-free replacement, and best of all Red Hat Linux autoconfigures it (zero human intervention required). See the SCFAQ on VIA Hardware.

    I couldn't figure out why my HDTV card was locking up every hour or so on my KT133 board, nor why WinXP was crashing frequently on my KT266 board. Removing the Live!'s fixed both systems. I didn't bother attempting a Live! on my new KT266A.

  2. Open source OSes by jargoone · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The review doesn't mention how the Audigy works under any open source operating systems, though.

    So what? It also doesn't mention how it works with the Commodore 64. If you care how it works under certain circumstances, then get off your ass and find out.

    Maybe people wouldn't have such an aversion to open source if the advocates wouldn't cry like children when they don't get their way.