On Sunday 18 January 2009 11:53:36 Marek Dmao wrote: > I'm trying to get my Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi card to finally work on my > computer running Ubuntu 8.10 amd_64. I'm pretty sure its the emu20k1 > chipset. I've been following the issue for quite a while on the alsa-dev > mailing list and know that a driver was being worked on until Creative > released an open source version of their beta driver. I've also read > somewhere that for a while there was some support for the driver in the trunk > for the alsa-driver but that it was moved to a branch. I can't find it, I > can't compile it, I can't manage to do anything. The installation pages for > ALSA have proven none too helpful, and the README for the Creative driver > reads, "make, make install" with no mention of dealing with errors. I really > hope someone can step me through this process as I have very little > experience dealing with compiling, linux kernels, and everything else > involved in trying to get either the Creative public beta or the latest alsa > builds to work.
I use something like this in a bash script... works, even S/PDIF i/o... pkgname=ctxfi pkgver=1.0.0 destdir="/lib/modules/$(uname -r)/kernel/drivers/ssound/$pkgname.ko" cd /path/to/some/where wget http://ccftp.creative.com/manualdn/Drivers/AVP/10792/0x0343D29A/xfidrv_linux_public_us_$pkgver.tar.gz tar xf xfidrv_linux_public_us_$pkgver.tar.gz cd XFiDrv_Linux_Public_US_$pkgver sed -i 's|sbin/lsmod|bin/lsmod|' Makefile make sudo install -Dm644 $pkgname.ko $destdir --markc ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
