| About this product | |
|---|---|
| Product | Creative Sound Blaster Z |
| Vendor | Creative |
| Tested operating systems | Linux Mint Ubuntu Linux Fedora |
| Average rating | |
| CompatDB XML | creative-sound-blaster-z.xml |
Compatibility Reports for Creative Sound Blaster Z
Reported by marcos
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Operating system
Fedora
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Fedora 43: Initially, the sound card wasn't producing sound through the speaker system, but it was recognized by the system. Then, I installed alsamixer-firmware (sudo dnf install alsamixer-firmware), and the card produced audio through the speaker system. It worked great!
Fedora 43: inicialmente a placa não produzia som no auto falante da caixa de som, mas era reconhecida pelo sistema. Então, instalei o alsamixer-firmware (sudo dnf install alsamixer-firmware), e a placa produziu o áudio na caixa de som. ficou ótimo!
Reported by em00k
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Operating system
Linux Mint
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Worked OOTB, although the advanced controls are not directly accessible via the GUI. Basic mixer controls levels are suppport in the GUI.
alsamixer offers a more complete set of controls including setting EQ preset, but no option to set a custom eq settings.
Bass cross over, Bass volume, Crystalyzer etc all preset.
alsamixergui will give you a very ancient rudimentary GUI.
Reported by Anonymous
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Ubuntu Linux
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After many hours was able to get sound to come out of speakers. Could not get an equalizer to work so sound output is much ower frequency than it should be. Dell XPS desktop system, Soundblaster Z card,.
Reported by jens
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Operating system
Linux Mint
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Linux Mint 20 XFCE
Alsamixer works fine, but pavucontrol doesn't recognize headphones as plugged in and therefore doesn't let me choose the sound card as default output device. Although I can hear everything just fine, when I set the sound card as output device for an application manually.
It worked perfectly fine in the live system before installing the OS. Don't know why this bug appeared.
Reported by M
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Operating system
Linux Mint
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Shows up as audio device, no sound.
Cinnamon 18.2 x64