Sound Blaster

[Loi-CL]

Hello Everyone,

There is a Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi and X-Fi Titanium Series Linux 32bit/64bit Driver Source released. Please post your feedback here.

Release date : 6 Nov 08

File Name : XFiDrv_Linux_Public_US_1.00.tar.gz

File Size: 68.8 KB

This download is a source release driver providing Linux® 32-bit / 64-bit OS support for Creative Sound Blaster® X-Fi™ and X-Fi Titanium series of audio devices. For more details, read the rest of this web release note.

Take note of the following:

• We recommend that only experienced users install this driver. Do not install this driver on a system used to perform critical tasks.

This download is intended for the following audio devices only:

• Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty® Champion Series
• Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Professional Series
• Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Professional Audio
• Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium
• Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Elite Pro 
• Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Platinum
• Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatal1ty
• Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer
• Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeMusic

Current release features:

• ALSA PCM Playback
• ALSA Record
• ALSA Mixer

Known issues:

• External I/O modules are not supported in this driver release.
• Applications from the Installation CD of your Sound Blaster audio device will not work with this driver.

Requirements:

• Linux x86 / x86_64 OS
• Creative Sound Blaster audio devices listed above

Notes:

• To install the driver, do the following:
  1. Download the tarball package onto your local hard disk.
  2. Un-tarball the downloaded package to unpack its contents.
  3. Read the README file and follow the instructions.

Message Edited by Loi-CL on 11-06-2008 06:13 PM

[frashman]

No way!

This is not real?

I'm impressed, i will try it this evening ... 

Thank you Creative, it seems to be good to believe in you.

Greetings

[RejZoR]

Cool. I might gonna try it in Ubuntu...

[Nomaxxx]

Cool! I'll try it later today...

By the way, here's the download link: http://support.creative.com/downloads/download.aspx?nDownloadId=10792 

[The_Source_HIM]

Unfortunately, this driver causes oops for me. My system is Fedora 9 2.6.26.6-79.fc9.x86_64.

Trace log (dmesg) is here: http://pastebin.ca/1247067

My card is X-Fi Platinum Fatal1ty Champ1on

Message Edited by The_Source_HIM on 11-06-2008 08:44 PM

[mrkd2007]

Great! Nearly three years since I first tried a Xtreme Music with Linux, the driver situation is clearing! Now improve the driver and resolve Windows more important problems too, and I will exchange my Xonar D2 with a Xfi.

Message Edited by mrkd2007 on 11-06-2008 11:58 AM

[fabioamd87]

GREAT NEWS!

I think that now I can buy a X-Fi SoundCard...

Message Edited by fabioamd87 on 11-06-2008 04:42 PM

[The_Source_HIM]

Tell me please, where can I report driver bug. Driver doesn't work properly for my model/system (mixer channels detected fine, but oops happens on attempt to play sound).

[The_Source_HIM]

Ok, works now after updating kernel to 2.6.27. But NO 5.1 SUPPORT AGAIN! Grrrr!

P.S. OSS mixer has no functionality. It is present (/dev/mixer) but no app can use it for volume control. OSS playback is fine however.

Message Edited by The_Source_HIM on 11-07-2008 08:01 AM

[Loi-CL]

Hi The_Source_HIM,

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The_Source_HIM wrote:
Tell me please, where can I report driver bug. Driver doesn't work properly for my model/system (mixer channels detected fine, but oops happens on attempt to play sound).

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Just post it on this thread. If you encounter an issue, please include your system specs, error message/s and if possible, put the steps to replicate the problem. Thank you.