How-To: Creative X-Fi

[Sadaiyappan]

Will this workaround work for X-Fi notebook?

[fcuk112]

i just did a fresh install of 9.10 RC on a box with x-fi fatal1ty pro, it detects my card but i am not getting any sound? i tried alsamixer -c0 without any joy.

cheers.

[titico]

Hello,

I tried to set up my x-fi creative card, with no result.
I'm running ubuntu 9.04.
I just followed all the steps in the guide with no inconvenient, but I still without any sound.

Any help? Thanks!

[mhenriday]

Titico, given that a stable release of Karmic is only a few days off, perhaps you'd be best advised to wait until that happens and then upgrade, rather than devoting an immense amount of time and effort to trouble-shooting Jaunty....

Henri

[loseby]

Titico, given that a stable release of Karmic is only a few days off, perhaps you'd be best advised to wait until that happens and then upgrade, rather than devoting an immense amount of time and effort to trouble-shooting Jaunty....

Henri

that is my intention

I am not going to upgrade but download, burn and do a clean install

Then I will start to work on sound drivers/video performance and a lot of other things

Update: clean install of 9.10 and it installed the x-fi drivers automatically and they worked
slight bug is that on reboot they are muted but havbing a mute button on keyboard makes it a very minoir problem

[8Kuula]

Can't get any sound output on my Creative X-Fi Xtreme audio card (PCI-E) on ubuntu 9.10 (64bit).
On my external amplifier has "PCM Digital" text, and when I remove optical cable it disapiers, so I think cable is ok, atleast.

So here some info:

Sound Preferences:

[SB X-Fi Xtreme Audio] CA0110-IBG
1 Output
Digital Stereo Duplex (IEC958)

lspci -l

03:00.0 PCI bridge: Creative Labs [SB X-Fi Xtreme Audio] CA0110-IBG PCI to PCIe Bridge
	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
	Bus: primary=03, secondary=04, subordinate=04, sec-latency=64
	Memory behind bridge: fbc00000-fbcfffff
	Capabilities: <access denied>
	Kernel modules: shpchp

04:00.0 Audio device: Creative Labs [SB X-Fi Xtreme Audio] CA0110-IBG
	Subsystem: Creative Labs Device 0018
	Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 30
	Memory at fbcfc000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
	Capabilities: <access denied>
	Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
	Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel

When I play some sound file on Totem, it just kind of stucks on playing and time don't go forward.

I have onboard sound card too, I have disabled it on bios but, it did not help.

And no it did not work on 9.04 either, but im not pro, so hoped I did mess driver install from instructions in this thread :]

Wiggled diffirent profiles on sound preferences, but haven't got working.

Im out of ideas

[adamruss]

any news on this? i'm stuck.

[wdiz]

Same problem here with X-Fi titanium and Digital duplex.
No sound and there is pulseaudio problem who take 100% cpu until i kill the process...and of course digital duplex option disappear in the sound prefs menu ...

[titico]

You were right Henri, I upgraded and there's no more problem.

Thanks.

[adamruss]

i found this ppa, but it didnt help:
https://launchpad.net/~wdaniels/+archive/alsa-backports

i am thinking maybe trying a newer kernel? maybe an RC one - have anyone tried that?