Creative Sound Blaster Z not working under Ubuntu 14.10

Question

I have a Creative Sound Blaster Z and am running Ubuntu 14.10.

I have been searching for quite a while about the problem with the Creative Sound Blaster Z not working under the 64-bit Linux Kernel.

Could someone help me to a similar solution as in the solution for the Creative Recon3D card.

Answer 1

There is a way I known to get sound out of this card, I have one and tried it.

It is form here:http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2147443&page=4

First of all, BEFORE turn the PC you need to plug the speaker or headphone to the front panel headphone socket.

Then open a terminal(ctrl+alt+t) and run one of the follow line of code ASAP after logining in.(Because it sometimes work, depend on luck)[enter your user password when sudo ask for it]

sudo kill `ps uax |grep pulseaudio | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}'` ; sudo rmmod snd-hda-intel; sleep 3; sudo modprobe snd-hda-intel

OR

sudo kill `ps uax |grep pulseaudio | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}'` ; sudo rmmod snd-hda-intel
//Then(This is not a command!)
sudo modprobe snd-hda-intel

Sometimes, you will need to run it twice.

If you encounter only one side sound out, then try alsamixer or gnome-alsamixer in terminal, check the sound level.

PS:It is really a hassle to change plug every time I change OS, so I could only stick with Windows.