It's nice to see a community not born from open source acknowledge Linux users. Even more so in a enthusiast environment. I was browsing the forums coincidentally right before I was about to reboot and start a fresh install of gentoo on this new box ...
There is currently no Linux support for the Blaster Z series cards and actually the Recon3D cards both using the ca0132 sound processor (Soundcore3D). There is a developer currently trying to work on this via the ca0132 portion of the snd-hda-intel k...