Coming again with good news: I finally made my Sound Blaster Creative X-Fi work fine with pulseaudio! Here are all steps: 1) Install latest dtchen's test kernel (2.6.28-13-generic #44~lp345627~crimsun1, at the moment) from here: http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~dtchen/ 2) Add Luke Yelavich's PPA is in your /etc/apt/sources.list:
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/themuso/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/themuso/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main 3) Obviously compile the crappy xfi drivers against the new kernel -.- 4) Purge pulseaudio from system: sudo apt-get purge pulseaudio sudo rm -rf /etc/pulse rm -rf ~.pulse 5) Reinstall pulseaudio, you should now get v0.9.15-1ubuntu2~ppa1: sudo apt-get install pulseaudio 6) *KDE ONLY* Add your user to pulseaudio groups (replace myusername with your user): sudo adduser myusername pulse-access sudo adduser myusername pulse-rt 7) *KDE ONLY* Let pulseaudio run at startup: cp /usr/bin/pulse-session ~/.kde/env/pulse-session.sh then edit /etc/default/pulseaudio so that its variables should look like these: PULSEAUDIO_SYSTEM_START=1 DISALLOW_MODULE_LOADING=0 8) Edit /etc/pulse/daemon.conf either uncommenting and/or modifying these values: high-priority = yes nice-level = -15 realtime-scheduling = yes realtime-priority = 5 default-fragments = 7 default-fragment-size-msec = 3 resample-method = speex-float-10 You may need different values according to your system, but remember it will suck more CPU (I'm using an Athlon64-X2 4200+, and both me and top don't notice any difference, anyway ;) ) 9) Tell your system and your apps such as skype to use pulseaudio. 10) Reboot! 11) Forgive me for spamming your inbox! :P -- Crackling noise after update to pulseaudio https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/301755 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
