Installing X-Fi drivers Ubuntu

Dev2 · 28 May 2008 at 15:25

Hey,

I'm having great difficulty installing X-Fi drivers on my computer. My distro is Ubuntu Hardy Heron, my processor and operating system are both 64 bit. I have a Creative X-Fi Music card, last time I tried linux there were no drivers available so I had to use Windows. Now that beta drivers are out I would like to become familar with Ubuntu.

So far this is what I've tried,
I have download two types of drivers. Creatives ones and the OSS ones. I can get neither to work.
Creative Drivers
OSS Drivers

I downloaded the AMD64 DEB ones from OSS. Then I extracted and opened with 'GDebi Package Installer', it said installed but no sound.

The Creative ones, there is only one type of driver. One size fits all I suppose. I tried to follow the read me instructions which are

Quick install

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1) You must have the fully configured source for the Linux kernel and
ALSA which you
want to use for this device driver. Partial installed
kernels (e.g. From distribution makers) may be unusable for this
action.
2) Run one of the following commands as root in the terminal:
./installer OR ./installer --with-alsainc=<ALSA_include_directory>
* ALSA Source Tree

On 2.6 kernels, the location of the ALSA source include directory
is parsed automatically from the running kernel.
If it is not in the standard place, specify the path via
--with-alsainc=<ALSA_include_directory>.
On 2.4 kernels, the location of the ALSA source include directory
must be specified via --with-alsainc=<ALSA_include_directory>.
* Note
If integrated ALSA is to be used to build, --with-alsainc option
must not be specified.

However when I type "su -" and enter my password to login as root it just says Authentication failure!

If somebody could walk me through this I would be much appreciated. I'm new to Linux, so explain as if you were giving instructions to your grandmother.

Dev

craptakular · 28 May 2008 at 15:30

i could never get these to work and gave up and used the onboard sound.

sudo -i

should log you in i think, maybe

Dev2 · 28 May 2008 at 17:58

Thanks, the sudo -i thing worked. It's a shame, I haven't heard many success stories with people getting the drivers to work. I don't like the thought of having to use onboard sound. I spent €90 on my sound card. I am determined to give it a solid attempt.

Dev

craptakular · 28 May 2008 at 19:54

Dev2 said:
Thanks, the sudo -i thing worked. It's a shame, I haven't heard many success stories with people getting the drivers to work. I don't like the thought of having to use onboard sound. I spent €90 on my sound card. I am determined to give it a solid attempt.

Dev

Yeh im in the same boat. Just remember its Creative's fault. I for one want be buying another card from them.

I appreciate they released drivers but they are hard to get working, and we waited years for this.

marscay · 28 May 2008 at 23:54

OSS + X-FI works great for me in linux but i don't use Ubuntu or any derivative of it.

there must be howto's on the ubuntu forums, i don't believe it just doesn't work on ubuntu.