Debian
alsa-driver package

  1. Bug #1166529
  2. Comment #90

Comment 90 for bug 1166529

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Egbert van der Wal (eggie) wrote : Re: Creative Recon3d & Sound Blaster Z (CA0132), No Sound At All; Broken Beyond All Repair

I just gave up and got me a Asus Xonar sound card and disabled the onboard. Works a treat!

The longer I worked with it, the more I got convinced it's a crappy chip. Even in Windows 10 it doesn't work properly - sometimes the volume levels are ignored or attached to different outputs than they should be.

Also, when I started Ubuntu 16.04 once, I needed to completely shut down the computer - if I just reboot to Windows it will also not work in Windows. After a shut down it usually works again.

I have no clue what this chip is doing and how it's interacting with the driver on Linux, but it's bad. Very bad.