[ALSA] Aureal

StuRReaL · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 25 Oct 2003 Posts: 117

Does anyone here have an aureal card? I've just remembered I have one knocking around.

Its an Aureal Vortex 2 (8830) I believe it suports 4.1 or 5.1 I stopped using it since I changed to Windows2000 and then WindowsXP as Aureal went bust when creative arse rapped them and bought them out to get hold of the superior A3D codecs.

Anyway anyone know what the ALSA supports like with this card? I've looked at the alsa projects web site and it says that it supports hardware mixing which is cool.

Plus how do I make it work with the nforce2 soundcard? or can I just disable it? and if so how?

Daagar · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 14 Mar 2003 Posts: 78

I have an aureal8820 card, and in kernel 2.4.x with the latest ALSA it seems to work just fine! I've yet to have any success with the 2.6.x kernels though - but I assume that is my fault.

Tokabola · Posted: Fri Apr 23, 2004 5:53 am Post subject:

AFAIK the vortex card is fully supported by alsa, even the gameport can be made to work.

I'm a musician and deeply regret giving away my Vortex when I went from 98 to XP. Even my 200 dollar Audigy can't give me the superb Bass Guitar sound the $20 (bargain bin) Vortex did.

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StuRReaL · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 25 Oct 2003 Posts: 117

yeah i know what you mean, everyone raves about the audgiy buts its not all that.

StuRReaL · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 25 Oct 2003 Posts: 117

finally my linux install is coming together. I only have a few more questions then i'll be sorted

Elm0 · Apprentice Joined: 24 Nov 2002 Posts: 281 Location: UK

It does work, but I had horrific problems with it randomly changing the sample rate. I would play a few MP3s/FLACs and the sound would suddenly speed up and go all high-pitched in XMMS.

Xine engine programs also had the same problem, very stuttery sound. Mplayer didn't seem to suffer as often, if at all.

Apart from that, the sound quality was WAY above my onboard VIA, and the hardware mixing worked great. Maybe it will be fixed in the next few releases.