Compatibility issues from Windows

[JANGxBANGER]

Hello all,

 

So I'm making the switch from Windows 10 to Ubuntu 19.04(On release date) after about 10 months of me toying with my VM's and getting really sick of some of the windows issues I have come across. I booted a live demo of 18.04 to check for any issues I have before I make the cut over to the new OS and I'm wondering if anyone can provide any insight on how to and where I can look to troubleshoot my issues.

 

I have a creative labs SoundBlaster -Z internal PCI audio card and get "Alsamixer" up and running. While this may help with some of the sound controls, some of the key features from the provided software is missing. I'm also running into the issue of being able to switch from my headphones to my speakers like I could on Windows. With that the Microphone picks up zero input when on the correct port and I have to plug directly into my MB and it sounds really choppy even when I use the discord audio test. Has anyone else experienced this, have any work around or any other config I should play with?

 

I recently purchased a new keyboard after my previous keyboard the "W" key stopped working (RIP 2013 Razer Blackwidiow ultimate). I went and grabbed the Asus ROG Stirix Flare and it been pretty solid so far. For controlling the RGB and macro's on it uses Asus's software "ASUS Armory" which I can't find any linux support and even reached out to their support team and got nothing in return. The Macro part isn't as big of an issue as I can get a separate program to handle that without issue. My problem is there is not a way to control the RGB and the out of the box RGB setup makes my eyes bleed after about 5 minutes and I have to change it. Is there another suggestion of RGB controls?

 

Thank you all for any help you can give.

 

 

[Sauron]

1 minute ago, JANGxBANGER said:

I have a creative labs SoundBlaster -Z internal PCI audio card and get "Alsamixer" up and running. While this may help with some of the sound controls, some of the key features from the provided software is missing. I'm also running into the issue of being able to switch from my headphones to my speakers like I could on Windows. With that the Microphone picks up zero input when on the correct port and I have to plug directly into my MB and it sounds really choppy even when I use the discord audio test. Has anyone else experienced this, have any work around or any other config I should play with?

You should be doing this through pulseaudio, not directly through alsa. Your manual alsa settings are probably clashing with the automated pulseaudio control.

 

I don't know about the RGB controls unfortunately.

[Breadpudding]

The problem with RGB controls is that there is no standard way of controlling them, everything is proprietary. If you want to be able to control them, try looking for some software that does just that on Linux. Worst case scenario you're stuck trying to write the software yourself.

[JANGxBANGER]

45 minutes ago, Sauron said:

You should be doing this through pulseaudio, not directly through alsa. Your manual alsa settings are probably clashing with the automated pulseaudio control.

 

I don't know about the RGB controls unfortunately.

Should I be uninstalling also in that case?

[Sauron]

4 minutes ago, JANGxBANGER said:

Should I be uninstalling also in that case?

No, you just shouldn't be messing with it.