XFi sound in Ubuntu?

mrochester

mrochester

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Hi all,

I've decided to give Ubuntu a try on a spare hard drive I have. I am really liking the jazzy effects that are on offer!
I've been to the Creative website and downloaded what I think is a driver for XFi soundcards for Linux. The download completed, and a bunch of files were extracted to a folder on the desktop. However, now I'm totally stumped. There doesn't seem to be any sort of .exe equivilent to run a setup to install the drivers, and I can't find any sort of device manager equivilent to point the machine to the drivers.

Can someone tell me how the heck I install these drivers?

Many thanks,

Michael.
 
.one. said:
In terminal,


1) Goto source directory

2) Execute make command as root > use sudo command.

make

make install
Click to expand...

That means absolutely nothing to me at all. Is there no easy way to do this? All I seem to get is guides that are pages and pages long with masses of nonsensical MSDOS style stuff you have to type into a console window. Is there not a setup I can run, or a device manager type thing which I can point to the folder containing the driver files?
 
Tell Creative to make their drivers not suck! :p

I suppose it's better than it was since Creative pretty much ignored Linux for a decade or so except annual promises for working drivers "soon"

Anyway, Creative is distributing their drivers as source code, not a binary or installable package as sane companies do for their end-user software.

You'll need to use the terminal for this, but it's not very scary and, as many experienced Linux (and other Unixy OS) users know the terminal is a great way to get a lot of work done quickly and efficiently.

Download the compressed archive from Creative, right-click it, extract it. go to the terminal and use the cd command to change to that directory. cd works the same way on Linux as it does on windows. Something like:
cd Desktop/xfialsadriver

then type:
make

then type:
sudo make install
and enter your password.
 
The drivers are in a folder on the desktop, but when I type 'cd desktop/xfi' in the console it just says no such file or directory.
 
It's case sensitive, so if the folder on the desktop is called xfi the command would be

cd ~/Desktop/xfi

BTW, ~/ is an abbreviation the computer understands to mean the whole path leading up to your home directory. In my case if I wanted to cd to the Desktop and I was in my home directory, as the terminal is automatically when you open it, I'd type
cd /home/bti/Desktop

or

cd ~/Desktop

...not that it matters for right now. :p
 
Wouldn't bother with Creative's drivers anyway, every report I've seen has said they're very unstable and basically useless. Just use the OSS driver (like that earlier link says to); I use it and have had no problems.
 
The drivers are fine.... unless you want to use your mic - you have to put up with hearing yourself through speakers. Because the source is available has anyone looked into fixing this or inproving them? Its a bit complex for me.
 
Fine? According to the guide in that earlier link you have to recompile your kernel just to use it. Even if they work, I'd say its a waste of time given that when the OSS driver works as least as well and is far easier to install.
 
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