I’ve been feeling pretty dead the last few nights… to the point that even making simple soup and sandwich even felt like a bit much. I was thinking of making something tonight, but after an accidental nap I pretty much signed off of the idea. I’m forcing myself to stay up later than usual, thanks to Pinky Up’s Tiramisu blend (black tea, coffee, white chocolate and all that good shit) has helped immensely. Now if I could just focus on one thing instead of trailing off onto different things. I’m not in the mood to work on anything, and I’ve been playing games to mainly test my new audio card. Now I’m back under Linux contemplating either tidying up or just gaming for the sake of gaming. It’s been awhile since I’ve tried playing other games under Linux… I’ve mainly been playing Crash Bandicoot during lunch breaks or editing videos, and that one stream I did recently.
So far I’ve been enjoying my new Sound Blaster! I’ll probably do a write up on it in a few days. I want to see if I can work out any other kinks before sitting down and typing to my heart’s content. It’s a Sound Blaster ZxR, an old sound card but still pricey and for a good reason. It’s an audiophile grade card, perfect if you do any A/V work. My only pet peeve so far is the desktop attachment. I LOVE that it has analog volume, but when you have it plugged directly into the sound card it’s super sensitive to the point of it being it’s own microphone! Plugging in my Shure SM58 only made the bugger all the more sensitive as Justin Bieber’s Nipples. For now when I’m under Windows I’ll use my Shure X2U DAC for mic and my sound card for listening… under Linux I’m not having much luck so far. To my knowledge support for this card should be in the latest kernel, but it only seems to show up when it pleases, and the headphone and mic channels aren’t coming through at all. I seem to be outputting sound, but not from those particular jacks. I also seem to be losing my LAN on random startups but only going into LinuxMint, and the only two things that I’ve changed recently are the kernel and adding in the sound card(s). Going back to a previous kernel seems to fix this situation, but not my audio issues. Will have to sort those when I get around to them.