Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Issue

Sly · 2010-03-02 19:53:07

Hey. I have Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio 7.1 Sound Card but cannot receive sound from it. I installed ALSA during the initial installed and tried to configure it but with no luck. I'm using the sound card with headphones too. Is there anything else I need to install/configure to get this working?

Cheers.

demizer · 2010-03-04 03:22:07

I am having problems as well. It was working, then after I updated the system, it broke. I am reading that it may have something to do with udev. I'll let you know if I get it working again (assuming you are having the same problem.)

Sly · 2010-03-05 14:04:20

I couldn't get it working in the initial installation, anyone got any tips?

cool · 2010-03-05 15:12:45

you card is reported to work 1.0.21 EAX onwards
http://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/main/i … ative_Labs

Drivers: http://connect.creativelabs.com/opensou … pport.aspx

use this debug script and post output
http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php/Aadebug

Last edited by cool (2010-03-05 15:15:04)

Sly · 2010-03-06 15:00:37

Output: http://pastie.org/private/9pogfgrg0mfjzzuufboyq

Thanks for taking a look.

Anonymo · 2010-03-06 17:51:03

Does it work with OSSv4?

Sly · 2010-03-07 02:24:57

Yeah it's working fine now with OSSv4, cheers guys. One more thing though, is there a way to get the default gnome volume controller to work with this? Currently it says:

"The volume control did not find any elements and/or devices to control. This means either that you don't have the right GStreamer plug-ins installed, or that you don't have a sound card configured.

You can remove the volume control from the panel by right-clicking the speaker icon on the panel and selecting "Remove From Panel" from the menu."

thriftee · 2010-03-07 17:38:28

Which codec is that card using, please? answer CA0106 in link somewhere above

Last edited by thriftee (2010-03-07 21:19:26)

kentern · 2010-03-07 19:52:13

Hey. I have Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio card to (PCI bridge: Creative Labs [SB X-Fi Xtreme Audio] CA0110-IBG PCI to PCIe) . And i have the same problems as Sly. installed ALSA during the installation and got no sound.

thriftee · 2010-03-07 21:18:01

kentern, I looked at sly's output above (I hadn't noticed the link to it before because my browser colors and fonts are very hard to read), and he has the card that uses the CA0106 codec. I also have the CA0110 codec card, but have removed it from the PC as it seemed a hopeless basket case with all versions of ALSA, and I never did find anyone on any linux distro successfully running it to the point of producing any sound.

PS: Admittedly, the CA0110 codec cards are also supposed to work starting with ALSA 1.0.21 (see the alsa user and developer lists), but since its a completely different card, I would suggest you start a separate thread for that card instead of diverting his thread, here. For the time being, on my system, I've replaced the card with an old PCI card that works without trouble. I spent a couple weeks trying to get the x-Fi one to work on 1/2 dozen different distros, with zero success on any of them, and as a matter of fact, it was the ALSA 1.0.22 in archlinux that got me interested in Arch.

Last edited by thriftee (2010-03-07 21:38:23)

chilebiker · 2010-03-07 21:28:52

Do you have more than one soundcard installed in your system? Then make sure to put the following in your /etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf:

options snd-ctxfi index=0

Sly · 2010-03-09 04:11:31

Sly wrote:

Yeah it's working fine now with OSSv4, cheers guys. One more thing though, is there a way to get the default gnome volume controller to work with this? Currently it says:
"The volume control did not find any elements and/or devices to control. This means either that you don't have the right GStreamer plug-ins installed, or that you don't have a sound card configured.
You can remove the volume control from the panel by right-clicking the speaker icon on the panel and selecting "Remove From Panel" from the menu."

Sorry to repeat myself, but does anyone have a solution to this?

Cheers.

Anonymo · 2010-03-22 20:20:21

Sly wrote:

Sly wrote:
Yeah it's working fine now with OSSv4, cheers guys. One more thing though, is there a way to get the default gnome volume controller to work with this? Currently it says:
"The volume control did not find any elements and/or devices to control. This means either that you don't have the right GStreamer plug-ins installed, or that you don't have a sound card configured.
You can remove the volume control from the panel by right-clicking the speaker icon on the panel and selecting "Remove From Panel" from the menu."
Sorry to repeat myself, but does anyone have a solution to this?
Cheers.

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GStreamer

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