francesthemutes

Alright, so I dual-boot Ubuntu and Vista and right now I use X-Fi for Vista and onboard audio for Ubuntu due to Creative sucking proverbial balls with drivers.

So, if I were to start, say Vista, I would:

Go into the BIOS, turn off onboard audio then go to the back of my computer and plug my audio jack into the X-Fi card port.


Now, recently I just discovered that I can leave my onboard audio on and the X-Fi seems to be the one pumping the [higher quality] sound through Vista and the onboard seems to not be active.


So, basically I've just got rid of one annoying step during boot. Now all I have to do is unplug the jack and either plug into X-Fi or onboard! Which is great!...

However, my question is: because I have onboard active in the BIOS, will it interfere with the X-Fi while in Vista? I'd rather not have the low-fi quality interfering with sound while in Vista. I've always been told that once you get a sound card you should disable the onboard audio. I want to leave it on because it just gives me less of a headache.

Soulphalanx

i would think it wouldnt matter because it's two different devices and two different audio jacks.
On a driver sense however, the two devices may conflict. I think it's either the drivers mess up or it's fine and each device has it's own sound. no mixing of onboard + X-fi sound

francesthemutes

That's pretty much exactly how I want it. It's just that I sometimes forget to go into the BIOS to change my sound and I either have no sound or crappy onboard sound in Vista when I listen to my music.

H3||scr3am

as long as you have no onboard audio drivers installed in your vista partition then it will not be recognized in vista, and there fore will not interfere/play, and then visa versa in Linux with the X-Fi

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