Perhaps the blame lies not with Creative.... I'm willing to bet that before Vista, the same issue happened with XP. And 2000. And ME. Despite the fact that sound cards almost across the board work nearly the same, as evidenced by the fact that the Linux drivers are so robust on that front, somehow it's Creative's fault that the card doesn't work right? If you asked Microsoft 10 years ago, they would have said that the lack of drivers was not the Vendor's fault but the OS's fault, and that it was proof positive how poor Linux quality really was. Hold them to the same standard, and file the issue with MS instead. They have 1000x the resources Creative does to make things work. Kris Browne kris.browne at gmail.com 612-353-6969 612-408-4431 http://www.google.com/profiles/kris.browne "the least expensive, most bug-free line of code is the one you didn't have to write." - Steve Jobs On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 08:06, Justin Kremer <justin.kremer at gmail.com>wrote: > Hello, > My onboard sound recently failed, and I decided it would be easier to > add a PCI card than to deal with a Taiwanese RMA department. I may > have been wrong. The catch is that I'm dual booting Ubuntu 9.10 and > Windows 7. > I started by trying a SB Live that I had sitting around, which worked > great in Ubuntu, but I was unable to find any drivers that would make > it work right in Win7. > I next looked for something a little newer for sale. Found an Audigy > SE, which is said to work well under Linux and had fairly recent > drivers available for Win7. It does work well under Linux (it was > working by the time the login window came up, no interaction from me) > but once again, no drivers that actually work for Win7, contrary to > what Creative's web site says. Creative's tech support is useless. > "Try uninstalling your drivers and then reinstalling." Yes, that > happened to be the first 5 things I did. Creative is now dead to > me...I'm not putting up with their fast release cycle and poor drivers > any more. I think I recall having this same issue a couple years ago > with Vista and that SB Live that was in my parts bin... > So I ask not because it is a Linux issue, but because I'm guessing > someone has been in a similar situation: Does anyone have first hand > experience with a PCI or PCI-e sound card that works well in both > Linux and Windows 7? I ended up with the Audigy by cross referencing > Linux compatibility lists with Windows driver availability from the > manufacturer, and that got me nowhere, so I'm hoping I can get > somewhere with actual experience. > I don't want to break the bank, and I'm no audiophile, but I'm willing > to spend some money to get something that works well. > Thanks! > -- > Justin Kremer > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20100125/fdcb8544/attachment.htm