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Mr_Maniac
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I also compiled the driver today and it works great! Now, even 5.1-Sound works (card/device=default, NOT surround51)!
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MaximeG
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| Posted: Mon Jun 08, 2009 10:33 am Post subject: |
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Hi,
Sounds like fun, I'll give it a try !
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ClericLeech
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| Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2009 9:03 pm Post subject: |
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@Mr_Maniac:
For me it is still 2 channel audio only. Are you sure this drivers produces 5.1 sound with your X-Fi?
Edit: Okay my fault. Alsamixer showed channels unmuted, but actually all but front where muted.
7.1 sound works fine so far  finally |
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Vaarsuvius
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| Posted: Sat Jun 27, 2009 5:49 pm Post subject: |
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I updated to kernel 2.6.30 and the xfi driver in portage (version 1.0) doesn't compile. So I tried the new alsa driver (the snapshot), but when I modprobe snd-ctxfi i get the following error in dmesg:
| Code: | SB-XFi 0000:00:0c.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
SB-XFi 0000:00:0c.0: PCI: Disallowing DAC for device
architecture does not support PCI busmaster DMA with mask 0xffffffffffffffff
SB-XFi 0000:00:0c.0: PCI INT A disabled
ctxfi: Something wrong!!! |
any ideas on what went wrong? |
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szczerb
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| Posted: Sat Jun 27, 2009 6:09 pm Post subject: |
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I don't have an X-Fi, but I just noticed that in kernel 2.6.31_rc1 there are drivers for it. Just thought some of you might not know and be interested  |
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Vaarsuvius
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| Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2009 10:18 am Post subject: |
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| szczerb wrote: | | I don't have an X-Fi, but I just noticed that in kernel 2.6.31_rc1 there are drivers for it. Just thought some of you might not know and be interested |
Tried that, same error. |
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MaximeG
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| Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 10:09 am Post subject: |
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Hi,
Does anyone know how to use (configure) xfi-drivers from portage ? I emerged it, but not sure what to do from now.
I already have another card up and running. Do I need to remove it before getting my XFI card to work ?
Do I need to remove ALSA drivers from kernel ?
Thanks,
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ClericLeech
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| Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 1:06 pm Post subject: |
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Hi,
I had to remove all Alsa drivers from the kernel (2.6.30-zen1), but I had to leave Soundcore and Alsa activated to build the unstable version of alsa from Takashi Iwai, otherwise I always got unresolved symbols. After that alsaconf found my X-Fi Fatality and everything works fine.
But inside of KDE 4.2.4 I have the problem that I can only choose the alsa default output fallback in phonon. So using KDE I only get stereo channels, while every other application gives me 7.1 output.
Does anyone have an idea how to enable upmixing for amarok 2? |
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dAlexis
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| Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2009 9:06 am Post subject: |
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Anybody managed to use tv-card with PCI sound transferring with ctxfi? - described at link below
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-468139.html
tvtime don't see sound any analog tv channel... Mplayer is the same, I tried all from /dev/snd...
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Vaarsuvius
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| Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 2:09 pm Post subject: |
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| Vaarsuvius wrote: |
| Code: | SB-XFi 0000:00:0c.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
SB-XFi 0000:00:0c.0: PCI: Disallowing DAC for device
architecture does not support PCI busmaster DMA with mask 0xffffffffffffffff
SB-XFi 0000:00:0c.0: PCI INT A disabled
ctxfi: Something wrong!!! |
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I tried again today and googled for some time to find a solution... Now I actually have to quote myself and ask again if anyone might have a clue what's wrong.
I have a 64bit system/kernel, and this is my xfi (lspci -vv):
| Code: | 00:0c.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB X-Fi
Subsystem: Creative Labs Device 0029
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 16
Region 0: I/O ports at d400 [size=32]
Region 1: Memory at dfc00000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2M]
Region 3: Memory at d8000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64M]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
Capabilities: [50] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+ Count=1/1 Enable-
Address: 0000000000000000 Data: 0000
Kernel modules: snd-ctxfi |
So it's Creative Labs Device 0029, the number is different to what I usually find in forum postings. Maybe that's a problem.
Before I tried the new alsa-driver I used kernel 2.6.28 with the xfi-drivers from portage - those worked fine. But those don't compile with kernel 2.6.30.x installed and running on my system.
When I configure/compile/install the new alsa-driver (both the "regular" and the unstable snapshot from http://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/tiwai/alsa/alsa-driver/) I get the above mentioned error in dmesg.
But the module is loaded, and I can run alsaconf, which detects my xfi. In the end alsaconf claims to have set up my card successfully.
But nothing else works - for example when I run alsamixer there's this error:
| Code: | | alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such file or directory |
That's hardly surprising because my kernel doesn't know my sound card:
| Code: | # cat /proc/asound/cards
--- no soundcards --- |
I can only guess that my specific version of the xfi isn't supported by the new driver (yet), but then I wonder, why it did work with the old xfi-driver.
Now I'm hoping for your support |
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Kronykus
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| Posted: Sat Aug 01, 2009 9:57 pm Post subject: |
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My advice is to:
| Code: | | echo "=sys-kernel/vanilla-sources-2.6.31_rc*" >> /etc/portage/package.unmask |
and use that kernel unless there is some reason you can't.... I've been using using it for a few weeks now and no problems at all... You will have to patch nvidia-drivers if you use them to get them to work with the kernel but otherwise everything else runs fine. I don't have the link off-hand but the patch for nvidia-drivers is in bugzilla. Good luck
EDIT: I was just doing an update and it appears the nvidia-drivers-185.18.31 do NOT need to be patched! Haven't tried them yet but they compiled ok with no patching. I don't know if the patch was applied upstream or fixed by nvidia, but they did compile, which the previous versions would not do. |
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PaulBredbury
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| Posted: Sat Aug 01, 2009 10:22 pm Post subject: |
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| Mr_Maniac wrote: | | 5.1-Sound works (card/device=default, NOT surround51)! |
That does not make any sense. default is surround20 - 2 speakers. surround51 is 5.1 speakers (2*2 stereo, plus front-centre, plus subwoofer).
So, surround20 is very different to surround51.
I suspect that you're using a video player such as mplayer which is automatically defaulting to surround51, because it sees that surround51 is appropriate and available. |
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Azangod
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| Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2009 10:58 am Post subject: |
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I'm pretty noob about those audio topics.
What I haven't understood is I must (or not) use alsa-driver from portage or can use in-kernel alsa-driver. |
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tgurr
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| Does the opensource xfi ALSA driver support hwmix or does anyone know if it can/will support it in future? Has probably been answered before, but the ALSA wiki doesn't have up2date content about it and a quick search didn't yield any useful information about it. My onboard soundcard is driving me nuts lately and since I play WoW and have to use TS2 besides it'd be really nice to have sound in both. :/ Thanks in advance. |
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kreon28
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I have problem with installing alsa-unstable-driver.
Configure and make went smooth but make install gives me:
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/sbin/depmod -a 2.6.29-gentoo-r5 -F /lib/modules/2.6.29-gentoo-r5/source/System.map
cat Warning
cat: Warning no such file or directory
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any clue? |
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| I am thinking about picking up a Creative X-FI PCI-e sound card, either the Titanium or the Fatality version because my on-board Realtek card just doesn't do my Logitech Z-680 speakers any justice. I have been waiting for years for a decent PCI-e sound card to emerge at a decent price range before shelling out the money on a sound card. So my question is this; Does the X-Fi line on Creative PCI-e sound cards work properly on Gentoo Linux and is the sound quality in Linux worthy of an upgrade from my on board sound. SPDIF optical 5.1 output is also important to me. Also I am running ALSA but I from what I've gathered people are having better success with OSS4, yet it is not yet supported in Gentoo so what is going on with that. |
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rapsure
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| Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2009 12:47 am Post subject: |
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The ctfxi driver does support hardware mixing. That was one of the first things I tried. So without messing with .asoundrc I can listen to both stereo and watch a dvd and play a enemy territory wolfenstein. Gotta love hardware mixing.
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frostschutz
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This doesn't really belong here anymore (Unsupported Software) since there is now a driver included in vanilla linux 2.6.31, but I still have a problem: mic doesn't work for me.
Has anyone gotten X-Fi to work with microphone in Linux? No matter what I do arecord either gives me silence or PCM output...
I also opened a thread here because I didn't find this one in time:
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-793438.html |
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desultory
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| frostschutz wrote: | | This doesn't really belong here anymore (Unsupported Software) since there is now a driver included in vanilla linux 2.6.31, but I still have a problem: mic doesn't work for me. |
At least in theory this topic should be for the unsupported versions of the X-Fi drivers, so it should remain here. Even so, an analogous topic for the supported versions would probably be useful.
This might be a good candidate. |
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Vaarsuvius
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| Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2009 12:37 pm Post subject: |
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Today I tried again to get my soundcard working, this time with:
linux kernel 2.6.31 and the alsa ctxfi driver in it
linux kernel 2.6.31 and alsa-driver-9999 from portage
both led to the same results as before (see my postings above)
So I finally hacked the official creative xfi-driver to compile against 2.6.31. And now sound is working again for me...
If anyone else runs into the same trouble as I did, here are the changes i made:
| Code: | $ diff XFiDrv_Linux_Public_US_1.00 XFiDrv_Linux_Public_US_1.00-new
diff XFiDrv_Linux_Public_US_1.00/ctatc.h XFiDrv_Linux_Public_US_1.00-new/ctatc.h
25d24
< #include <sound/driver.h>
diff XFiDrv_Linux_Public_US_1.00/cthw20k1.c XFiDrv_Linux_Public_US_1.00-new/cthw20k1.c
23a24
> #include <linux/delay.h>
diff XFiDrv_Linux_Public_US_1.00/cthw20k2.c XFiDrv_Linux_Public_US_1.00-new/cthw20k2.c
23a24
> #include <linux/delay.h>
diff XFiDrv_Linux_Public_US_1.00/xfi.c XFiDrv_Linux_Public_US_1.00-new/xfi.c
14d13
< #include <sound/driver.h>
55,59c54,57
< card = snd_card_new(index[dev], id[dev], THIS_MODULE, 0);
< if (card == NULL) {
< return -ENOMEM;
< }
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> err = snd_card_create(index[dev], id[dev], THIS_MODULE, 0, &card);
> if (err < 0)
> return err;
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RaceTM
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| Posted: Sun Jul 11, 2010 10:26 pm Post subject: |
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Vaarsuvius. My man. You have just solved a problem I have been fighting with for 3 days. I've also been having this issue, on a recently built arch linux box. For the life of me I haven't been able to figure it out. Finally I said screw it, I'll grab the creative driver and try what that guy on the gentoo forums suggested. You are my hero. If you're ever in Ottawa, I will buy you a beer.
| Vaarsuvius wrote: | Today I tried again to get my soundcard working, this time with:
linux kernel 2.6.31 and the alsa ctxfi driver in it
linux kernel 2.6.31 and alsa-driver-9999 from portage
both led to the same results as before (see my postings above)
So I finally hacked the official creative xfi-driver to compile against 2.6.31. And now sound is working again for me...
If anyone else runs into the same trouble as I did, here are the changes i made:
| Code: | $ diff XFiDrv_Linux_Public_US_1.00 XFiDrv_Linux_Public_US_1.00-new
diff XFiDrv_Linux_Public_US_1.00/ctatc.h XFiDrv_Linux_Public_US_1.00-new/ctatc.h
25d24
< #include <sound/driver.h>
diff XFiDrv_Linux_Public_US_1.00/cthw20k1.c XFiDrv_Linux_Public_US_1.00-new/cthw20k1.c
23a24
> #include <linux/delay.h>
diff XFiDrv_Linux_Public_US_1.00/cthw20k2.c XFiDrv_Linux_Public_US_1.00-new/cthw20k2.c
23a24
> #include <linux/delay.h>
diff XFiDrv_Linux_Public_US_1.00/xfi.c XFiDrv_Linux_Public_US_1.00-new/xfi.c
14d13
< #include <sound/driver.h>
55,59c54,57
< card = snd_card_new(index[dev], id[dev], THIS_MODULE, 0);
< if (card == NULL) {
< return -ENOMEM;
< }
<
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> err = snd_card_create(index[dev], id[dev], THIS_MODULE, 0, &card);
> if (err < 0)
> return err;
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Belliash
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| Posted: Mon Jul 12, 2010 8:29 pm Post subject: |
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Anyone tried notebook version of XFi soundcard connected to laptop via ExpressCard? I mena this exactly: http://en.store.creative.com/products/product.aspx?catid=1&pid=17988
And what about sound quality? I have SoundBlaster Live in my workstation computer and i use alsa emu10k1 driver + ld10k1 and sound is perfect for me (even better than on windows xp/vista). What about xfi linux drivers? Are they comparable? Best of all, sb live! plays the loudest from all sound cards i used (most were integrated). I hope XFi does not play more quietly...
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keenblade
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| Posted: Tue Jul 13, 2010 9:43 am Post subject: |
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I would not buy that, since it plays only stereo not 5.1. I would preffer X-Fi Surround 5.1 usb. It is perfect for notebooks since it is a small usb card which has hardware volume and mute buttons. Also it is not that big compared to the express card one. It is cheaper and you can use it for all kind of computers, not just notebooks, as well.
The only interesting thing with express card one is wireless audio, but for that you have to buy it and it is the same price as the card. Thus, doubling the price 
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Belliash
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| Posted: Tue Jul 13, 2010 1:44 pm Post subject: |
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| keenblade wrote: |
I would not buy that, since it plays only stereo not 5.1. I would preffer X-Fi Surround 5.1 usb. It is perfect for notebooks since it is a small usb card which has hardware volume and mute buttons. Also it is not that big compared to the express card one. It is cheaper and you can use it for all kind of computers, not just notebooks, as well.
The only interesting thing with express card one is wireless audio, but for that you have to buy it and it is the same price as the card. Thus, doubling the price |
ok, but have You tried this card on Linux? I have read many opinions that some cards still does not work...
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| Belliash wrote: | | [ok, but have You tried this card on Linux? I have read many opinions that some cards still does not work... |
Yes, I use this usb card on my gentoo. It works fine with module "snd_usb_audio". With alsa 5.1 sound works fine while watching dvd. But the hardware volume and mute buttons not working, yet. Speaker test correctly recognizes 5.1 system:
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speaker-test -Dplug:surround51:1 -c6 -twav
speaker-test 1.0.23
Playback device is plug:surround51:1
Stream parameters are 48000Hz, S16_LE, 6 channels
WAV file(s)
Rate set to 48000Hz (requested 48000Hz)
Buffer size range from 96 to 87381
Period size range from 48 to 43690
Using max buffer size 87380
Periods = 4
was set period_size = 21845
was set buffer_size = 87380
0 - Front Left
4 - Center
1 - Front Right
3 - Rear Right
2 - Rear Left
5 - LFE
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I haven't created an .asoundrc file, for playing 5.1 sound from stereo mp3 files, but pulseaudio does that easily. But I rather do not use pulseaudio.
Anyway X-Fi Surround 5.1 sounds really good. Also if you look at my sign, I am in the process of searching info and adjusting the card for my gentoo.
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