<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div>[sms@Serenity ~]$ aconnect -o<br>client 14: 'Midi Through' [type=kernel]<br> 0 'Midi Through Port-0'<br>client 16: 'SB Audigy 2 ZS [SB0350]' [type=kernel]<br> 0 'Audigy MPU-401 (UART)'<br> 32 'Audigy MPU-401 #2'<br>client 17: 'Emu10k1 WaveTable' [type=kernel]<br> 0 'Emu10k1 Port 0 '<br> 1 'Emu10k1 Port 1 '<br> 2 'Emu10k1 Port 2 '<br> 3 'Emu10k1 Port 3 '<br>[sms@Serenity ~]$ <br><br></div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">My Audigy 2 ZS is recognized. I've used the 0-3 ports through 'arecord' with success. (I disabled the motherboard sound chip through the BIOS.)<br><br>I'm using Fedora 12. But the Audigy 2
should work with any distro. Get everything related to AWE, Emu10k1, Sound Blaster, and whatever else that your package manager will show you.<br><br>Then get everything ALSA related, with the exception of the ALSA to PulseAudio backend. In Fedora 12, PulseAudio wasn't playing nice with ALSA, or at least I always had trouble getting them to play nice.<br><br>Finally, and most critically, get ALSAMIXER installed. Press the F5 key so that you see all the settings. Make Absolutely Certain the Audigy Analog/Digital Output Jack setting is set to OFF. If this setting is set ON, you will not hear any audio output through the Audigy 2. I suspect this has been your problem with the Audigy 2. It was also the critical setting for my prior SBLive! card.<br><br>The Audigy 2 does in fact work perfectly well with Linux. I've been doing it since the Audigy 2 first came out, however many years that's been.<br><br>And
if you have the time to learn them, use the Linux apps. I run Gnome desktop with KDE also installed. <br><br>Good Luck,<br>Stephen.<br></div>
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