After months of hell trying to get my Creative Soundblaster Z working I have finally admitted defeat. I managed to get the sound working using Alsamixer, I re-mapped the ports using HDAJackRetask because it wouldn’t detect my microphone, I upgraded the kernel to fix the audio lag, but I can’t for the life of me fix the sound sometimes stops working until I do a cold boot problem.
I love the SoundBlaster Z, the crystallizer feature makes music sound amazing and I will be sad to give it up but it’s just become a major headache. It worked flawlessly under Windows for years but Manjaro just won’t work with it.
I would rather not get an external DAC. I know they are the better option but I would prefer to avoid more cables and things on my desk. Can anyone recommend an internal sound card that just works out of the box with having to mess with a dozen different things?
