Support for Turle Beach Montego II Under Linux 3
Tuesd@y asks: "I have been trying to find a way to get Linux to support my sound card, a Voyetra Turtle Beach Montego II Quadzilla, for quit some time. Is there any one out there who can offer some advice or even better a solution?" It's not listed in the Sound-HOWTO and appears to be a fairly new card. My guess is that support may be unavailable for this card at this time, and if this is true, are there any folks looking in to it?
No drivers at the moment. (Score:2)
According to their website -
"THE "Vortex 2" (AU8820) CHIP IS NOT SUPPORTED YET. Unfortunately we can't give any
schedule for this chip yet. At this moment only the original Vortex (AU8820) chip
is supported."
Also on their website -
"Vortex 2 (AU8830): Driver development will start shortly. Estimated beta September 99. (Sorry for all the delays!). "
Re:No drivers at the moment. (Score:2)
I'm fine with 4Front having a closed-source configuration tool. That I'd be willing to pay money for, in certain circumstances. However, by alienating the more technical users, who are the ones who tend to actually need the support for the more obscure/powerful soundcards, and only wanting to cater to newbies, who tend to have some generic WSS-compatible chip which came on their motherboard, they rather defeat the purpose of the whole thing, and also, sadly, end up keeping Linux's sound driver support quite far in the past.
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"'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.
Re:No drivers at the moment. (Score:2)
I'm kind of glad I payed for it because when I got it, some stuff was playing too fast (MP3s). I went to the support form on their page and got a human reply within 15 minutes. The whole thing was explained without any dumbing down (I write support queries in such a way that it's clear that they don't have to dumb it down). For support like that, US$30 is dirt cheap.
I just linked
Civ:CTP sounds fine though..