Hi, I'm using Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx (with pulseaudio pre-installed). Connect your soundcard to USB. For getting surround support you have to search for the line
; default-sample-channels = 2 in /etc/pulse/daemon.conf Remove the ";" and alter 2 to 6 for 5.1 support. Then restart pulseaudio in terminal via "pulseaudio -k" or reboot. Now you can control your soundcard in the systemmixer (top right corner you see a speakersymbol). There you have to choose the creativecard. Afterwards you can set the properties according to your needs. Regards, Matthias 2010/7/1 camellight <cemin...@gmail.com> > Hi Linki, could you give details on how you managed to have surround? > > -- > CREATIVE X-Fi Surround 5.1 USB no remote control > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/398531 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > > Status in “alsa-driver” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete > > Bug description: > edit: the sound and soft. volume control works on 9.10 > > hw not working: CREATIVE X-Fi Surround 5.1 USB > driver for device: snd_usb_audio > > what should work: > > 1clear sound, > 2 infrared remote control and hardware volume control button, > 3 no volume control > 4. device works with full speed, which is according specification USB 1.0 > speed, it should be high speed USB 2.0. > > what's the problem: > > 1sound has pops and cracks few times per second. > also reported here: > http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=6830864&postcount=8 > 2 remote control in this sound card is not implemented in driver, so no HID > device is found, I tried it with lirc and driver usbaudio, but it didn't > work. > 3. no mixer > 4. USB 1.0 speed prevents special features like surround and crystalizer to > work > > lsb_release -rd > Description: Ubuntu 9.04 > Release: 9.04 > uname -r > 2.6.28-13-generic > > cat /proc/asound/version > Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.20. > Compiled on Jul 9 2009 for kernel 2.6.28-13-generic (SMP). > > cat /proc/asound/cards > 0 [Intel ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel > HDA Intel at 0xd0440000 irq 22 > 1 [S51 ]: USB-Audio - SB X-Fi Surround 5.1 > Creative Technology SB X-Fi Surround 5.1 at > usb-0000:00:1d.2-1, full speed > > some info I found: http://mndar.phpnet.us/usbxfi/ > > this was built from latest unstable source(tried also stable). > > x-fi provided some Open source drivers, but only for PCI x-fi cards. > > > > To unsubscribe from this bug, go to: > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alsa-driver/+bug/398531/+subscribe > -- CREATIVE X-Fi Surround 5.1 USB no remote control https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/398531 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
