I use archlinux. I'm familiar enough that I went through most of the LFS project before my virtual machine in XP got borked (because XP got borked). I dont ever use distros like fedora, debian, and ubuntu because they have too much junk preconfigured and they come along too bloated.
The setup for arch is fairly easy. If it is recognized by linux as a USB sound card, i can get it working. Alsa makes it rather easy to do so, and worst case scenario I'll have to compile a custom kernel module, add it to my modules array in rc.conf, and add the kernel itself to the ignore list in pacman.
Once I get my arch install loaded up again (upgraded the hdd, decided to start with a clean copy of 7 and put arch later on but ran out of time), I'm going to be working on custom compiling a kernel anyways using LFS methods so that everything is optimized for my exact architechture and hardware config.
The reason I couldnt get the xtreme-audio notebok working is because the CA0110 chip it uses, and the previous gen ca0106 chip, have no linux support. Creative refuses to release linux support because they both use 100% software based technology, thus creative cant release the driver OR specs for it without giving away their x-fi algorithm which is apparently some kind of game changer. Personally, the only thing I want from a sound card is bit-perfect streaming to a DAC or reciever. None of this 24 bit crystalizer or their other gimmicks.
The setup for arch is fairly easy. If it is recognized by linux as a USB sound card, i can get it working. Alsa makes it rather easy to do so, and worst case scenario I'll have to compile a custom kernel module, add it to my modules array in rc.conf, and add the kernel itself to the ignore list in pacman.
Once I get my arch install loaded up again (upgraded the hdd, decided to start with a clean copy of 7 and put arch later on but ran out of time), I'm going to be working on custom compiling a kernel anyways using LFS methods so that everything is optimized for my exact architechture and hardware config.
The reason I couldnt get the xtreme-audio notebok working is because the CA0110 chip it uses, and the previous gen ca0106 chip, have no linux support. Creative refuses to release linux support because they both use 100% software based technology, thus creative cant release the driver OR specs for it without giving away their x-fi algorithm which is apparently some kind of game changer. Personally, the only thing I want from a sound card is bit-perfect streaming to a DAC or reciever. None of this 24 bit crystalizer or their other gimmicks.
