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There comes a time in every technology-enthusiasts life that they seriously want to consider walking away from computers for good. This is one of those times for me.
I read a lot about the Turtle Beach cards, particularly the Riviera 5.1 and Montego 7.1. I read they were both supported out of box, and heard a lot of uplifting reviews.
I received my Montego 7.1 today. 62 dollars shipped. Money that I thought would be well spent. As of now, I won't comment further on that.
I turned the computer off. Put the card in. Booted up to Ubuntu Hardy 64 bit. I had audio. Great. I was happy. I unmuted every option in alsamixer and maxed out PCM and master volume to see how it handled when maxed out. Oddly enough, the max volume didn't seem to be up to par with the onboard audio, strangely enough. So, I decided, hey let's re-enable my onboard card and compare! After I did that, things just got fked up. I would boot up in Ubuntu... select sys-pref-sounds to select my onboard card as the mixer, and the sound window would freeze. hm, wtf? Out of curiosity, tried to open synaptic. Froze. K. Grr... Kept happening.
I got so fed up, I reinstalled. Granted, I didn't format my home dir, but I doubt any critical settings were stored in hidden directories there that would later effect my issues.
Then I got my sound card to work again. Oops. Still the max volume not-up-to-par thing. So now, I'm at a loss.
The thing that really ****es me off is I had a SIIG SoundWave 7.1 sound card. It has a C-Media chipset, 96khz playback, 24 bit PCI card, blah blah. This Turtle Beach Montego is 100% identical. So why the sudden drop?
Who knows, maybe for some reason I magically lost my hearing today. Maybe tomorrow it'll be blazingly loud to me. But I just expected more out of it, and also I didn't understand why I had the random applications locking up (or not even loading in the first place) after putting the card in.
So much for it working out of box for me... more like it needed a fresh OS install. But who knows, I may have had some qwirky Alsa settings from before.
Any input?
I read a lot about the Turtle Beach cards, particularly the Riviera 5.1 and Montego 7.1. I read they were both supported out of box, and heard a lot of uplifting reviews.
I received my Montego 7.1 today. 62 dollars shipped. Money that I thought would be well spent. As of now, I won't comment further on that.
I turned the computer off. Put the card in. Booted up to Ubuntu Hardy 64 bit. I had audio. Great. I was happy. I unmuted every option in alsamixer and maxed out PCM and master volume to see how it handled when maxed out. Oddly enough, the max volume didn't seem to be up to par with the onboard audio, strangely enough. So, I decided, hey let's re-enable my onboard card and compare! After I did that, things just got fked up. I would boot up in Ubuntu... select sys-pref-sounds to select my onboard card as the mixer, and the sound window would freeze. hm, wtf? Out of curiosity, tried to open synaptic. Froze. K. Grr... Kept happening.
I got so fed up, I reinstalled. Granted, I didn't format my home dir, but I doubt any critical settings were stored in hidden directories there that would later effect my issues.
Then I got my sound card to work again. Oops. Still the max volume not-up-to-par thing. So now, I'm at a loss.
The thing that really ****es me off is I had a SIIG SoundWave 7.1 sound card. It has a C-Media chipset, 96khz playback, 24 bit PCI card, blah blah. This Turtle Beach Montego is 100% identical. So why the sudden drop?
Who knows, maybe for some reason I magically lost my hearing today. Maybe tomorrow it'll be blazingly loud to me. But I just expected more out of it, and also I didn't understand why I had the random applications locking up (or not even loading in the first place) after putting the card in.
So much for it working out of box for me... more like it needed a fresh OS install. But who knows, I may have had some qwirky Alsa settings from before.
Any input?