Creative X-Fi Extreme Gamer sound card.

[bgast1]

Last time I checked, these cards were not supported. It's been a while though. My on-board sound works well, but my X-Fi card sounds better in Windows. Am I still stuck with my on-board sound?

[Jeanne-Kamikaze]

Re: Creative X-Fi Extreme Gamer sound card.

I've got an X-Fi Platinum and it works perfectly fine for me. You'll just need to compile these drivers: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kerne...napshot.tar.gz.

[Original]

Re: Creative X-Fi Extreme Gamer sound card.

I have the same issue. I tried once before about a year ago and couldn't get it to work.

No music means no kubuntu for me. The link above gave me a different file then I had before, but same issue.

I'm from a windows BG of course and never did much with DOS so I'm lost.

How do I compile those files so I have a useable driver? Right now I have a windows 7 rc disc and am about to go with it so I figured before I loaded it up I'd at least try to get kubuntu working for me again.

[dibl]

Re: Creative X-Fi Extreme Gamer sound card.

Creative X-Fi is not yet supported by ALSA, so you're stuck engineering your own driver, as Jeanne-K says. Sounds like this news might come a bit late, but ALSA does support many excellent sound chips:

http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Matrix:Main

[Original]

Re: Creative X-Fi Extreme Gamer sound card.

Thanks, but I'm not gonna go buy another sound card to use kubuntu. So far it's no less frustrating than Vista, so I can't see spending money on it.

I currently have to DL's that I've been told will make the sound card work, yet I have to do some kind of compile to get them to work and I have no idea how.

I'd even be happy to get my onboard intel sound to work, but no luck so far, working on that now.

[dibl]

Re: Creative X-Fi Extreme Gamer sound card.

I'd even be happy to get my onboard intel sound to work, but no luck so far, working on that now.

I've got a very nice onboard intel hda sound chip, and it produces excellent audio. It should be automatically detected, but if it doesn't show up in Kmenu > System Settings > Multimedia, then you probably need to follow this guidance and make sure you have the right option set for snd_hda_intel driver:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=205449

[Original]

Re: Creative X-Fi Extreme Gamer sound card.

hmmm, looks like it's probably because that soundcard is turned off in BIOS. In which case it seems I'd have to go into BIOS everytime I boot to decide which OS/ sound card I'm using. I know I had to turn it off to get my XFi to work with windows.

I'll probably try once to have them both on...

[kbunt]

Re: Creative X-Fi Extreme Gamer sound card.

Last time I checked, these cards were not supported. It's been a while though. My on-board sound works well, but my X-Fi card sounds better in Windows. Am I still stuck with my on-board sound?

I read that some of the X-Fi cards will be supported in Linux at the 2.6.31 kernel. I have no idea how good the support will be or what you'd have to do.

[Gonesolo]

Re: Creative X-Fi Extreme Gamer sound card.

I have an XFi Extreme music and I have it working fine in Kubuntu 9.04 (64 bit)

Here's the driver I used

http://support.creative.com/Products...Fi+XtremeGamer

second one down.

Once downloaded just extract it to a folder then open a terminal.

type the following

$make

and after it has completed

$sudo make install

once complete just reboot.

This driver works fine for me, but I have an XFi Extrememusic but hey give it a shot.

[doctordruidphd]

Re: Creative X-Fi Extreme Gamer sound card.

Native ALSA drivers are now available in the 2.6.31 kernels in Karmic (9.10)
The support is still in its early stages; the audio works fine, but there appears to be no support for the CMDSS and crystallizer functions as of yet.