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Re: EVGA Nu Audio - Linux Drivers
2021/05/10 16:58:56
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tigerdognew @Teddy Rogers and others: I seem to have worked out the basics for functionality with a little help from EVGA and from the forum at Audiophilestyle. Here's the gist: the Linux kernel has supported USB 2.0 audio devices for years, and as of kernel 5.4, even has a special tweak so that the EVGA Nu can be recognized as capable of digital audio pass-through. The hitch is, the EVGA Nu only works when loaded with the original firmware 0x027 from its initial release. So to get it working in Linux, you must first put it in a Windows system, and load the EVGA driver version 0.1.1 or earlier (available on EVGA's web site.) After that, Linux (at least Ubuntu 20.04) will recognize the card. I tried three other firmwares (0x028, 0x02b, and 0x032.) All of them cause the card to not function. Once working, there seem to be a few quirks: I have tested my Nu, with 0x027 firmware, on two different Linux systems (different motherboards, different generation AMD CPUs) and it has worked in both cases. I'd appreciate if someone else could see if the same steps work elsewhere.
This is awesome, I'd like to try it. Does rolling back to the older firmware cause any issues in Windows 10? I spend the majority of my time in Windows 10, but I also want my sound to work in Linux.
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