Creative X-Fi Fatal1ty... help [Archlinux64]

Aerodyne · 2008-03-31 14:05:39

Hi all,

Has anybody managed to get this working on ArchLinux 64? They've released some drivers on the site but I couldn't get them to work.

Followed the readme but to no avail, if anybody managed please let me know. Thanks.

Drivers:
http://uk.europe.creative.com/support/d … &x=26&y=15

TIA

Pierre · 2008-03-31 16:24:07

Those drivers need an lod gcc/glibc; they will never work on Arch. You have to wait for support in ALSA. (Afaik Creative plans to open some documentation)

Aerodyne · 2008-03-31 16:34:09

Thanks for the info on that

loosec · 2008-04-01 08:19:19

I gave mine away when I stopped using win xp. Also check out the digg story on creative and their (lack of) vista-drivers. http://digg.com/search?section=all&s=creative

brebs · 2008-04-01 08:48:44

Swap it with a Windows XP user, for an Audigy 4.

Or smash it into little pieces, as a few people have been doing in response to Creative's pathetic drivers. Don't forget to take pictures!

ST.x · 2008-04-01 11:00:16

sigh, my x-fi xtreme-music is still sitting inside on my asus p5b-d which luckily has nice onboard audio. I couldn't be bothered to remove it, but I did hear about creative giving away some info to OSS? a while back.

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Aerodyne · 2008-04-02 10:52:22

I know... Creative have gone silly on us!

I may have to have two desktops now, one with Vista64 (for gaming) & Arch64 ('cos I like my linux, but with my Audigy 2)

Sacro · 2008-04-02 14:56:59

I have an X-Fi and have got it working in Arch 32 bit using OSS4, instructions are here http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/OSS

madmantm · 2008-04-02 15:34:42

correct me if i am wrong but creative has dumped linux suppord a long time ago?

Aerodyne · 2008-04-03 16:17:06

I don't think Creative have stopped working on Linux X-Fi drivers (I hope not anyway).

I can't use Arch32 'cos I have 4GB of RAM I'd like to use correctly ;-)

42 · 2008-04-14 22:52:09

Pierre wrote:

Those drivers need an lod gcc/glibc; they will never work on Arch. You have to wait for support in ALSA.

Thanks for that info Pierre. I suppose, it saved me a lot of messing around with drivers that do not work.

I bought my X-fi just a month before I discovered my love for linux about one year ago.
I'm wondering if Creative is not able to program a linux driver for their own product, have a secret "do not support Linux"- order from a third party , or if they simply give a damn to customers who want to use something else than the mainstream OS.
One day they may be sorry for this lame support!

Can anybody recommend a good soundcard for ~50 € - 100 € (no SB!)

Pierre wrote:

(Afaik Creative plans to open some documentation)

Afaik they plan to release drivers since at least two years ++ ....

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brebs · 2008-04-14 23:04:21

For recommendation, see thread.

Tinuva · 2008-06-04 08:54:52

Pierre wrote:

Those drivers need an lod gcc/glibc; they will never work on Arch. You have to wait for support in ALSA. (Afaik Creative plans to open some documentation)

What does lod gcc/glibc mean?

I got past all the errors to get it compiled and installed however ofcoarse when you start up the script to initialize it, it have some nasty errors.

zenlord · 2008-06-04 10:23:38

Tinuva wrote:

What does lod gcc/glibc mean?

I think it's just a typo: 'old'

Zl.

Tinuva · 2008-06-04 10:58:19

Aah bummer ($&*#^* @ creative for that. Its the strangest and biggest soundcard drivers ive seen on linux and the way they want to start it up was the strangest too. Makes no sense that I need a whole seperate service from alsa just for the sound card. Their linux drivers are going to become just as big as the windows ones *shrug*

Aerodyne · 2008-06-06 16:07:56

Creative OpenSource have released a new BETA of their drivers for X-Fi cards, they have tested it with SuSE, RH & Ubuntu (64bit versions).

Has anybody managed to tweak it in order to work on ArchLinux64 yet or is it still a no go 'cos of gcc/glibc? Thanks.

http://connect.creativelabs.com/opensou … .aspx#X-Fi

GogglesGuy · 2008-06-06 16:36:30

Aerodyne wrote:

I don't think Creative have stopped working on Linux X-Fi drivers (I hope not anyway).

You're kidding right, we're talking about Creative... their drivers suck big time... (that is, you're lucky if they have drivers for your OS)... people should stop buying their products..

Last edited by GogglesGuy (2008-06-06 16:37:29)

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