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sabooky

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Registered: 2006-11-02

Posts: 89

Finally, Creative X-Fi drivers are comming to linux.

Supposed to come out at the end of the month
http://forums.creative.com/creativelabs … 20#M106320

About freaking time, been almost two years waiting for this.

twarkie

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Registered: 2007-09-16

Posts: 24

Re: Finally, Creative X-Fi drivers are comming to linux.

Drivers are released now. Anyone tried them yet?

Fackamato

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Registered: 2006-03-31

Posts: 579

Re: Finally, Creative X-Fi drivers are comming to linux.

This download is intended for the following audio devices only:

    * Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Elite Pro 
    * Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Platinum
    * Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatal1ty®
    * Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer
    * Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeMusic

Current release features:

    * ALSA PCM Playback
    * ALSA MIDI Playback
    * ALSA Synth
    * ALSA Record
    * ALSA Mixer

Known issues:

    * This driver source will not compile with GCC version 4 and above.
    * S/PDIF passthrough is not supported in this driver release.
    * External I/O modules are not supported in this driver release.
    * Applications from the original Sound Blaster X-Fi Installation CD will not work with this driver.

Requirements:

    * Linux x86_64 OS
    * Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi audio devices listed above.

I've a X-Fi Fatal1ty Gamer card, but I'm on 32bit.

sabooky

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Registered: 2006-11-02

Posts: 89

Re: Finally, Creative X-Fi drivers are comming to linux.

ARGH!!!
They're 64bit sigh... guess the wait goes on...
ah well, I'll check back in a couple of months.

xenobrain

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From: Lodi, CA

Registered: 2006-05-31

Posts: 91

Re: Finally, Creative X-Fi drivers are comming to linux.

I'm very interesting in trying them, but currently running 32-bit for WINE. I could probably set up a chroot jail for 64-bit, but I'm also lazy

Why did they target 64-bit anyway, I wonder?

hvidgaard

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Registered: 2006-05-15

Posts: 10

Re: Finally, Creative X-Fi drivers are comming to linux.

This is good news, and I like that the do the direct opposite that the rest of the world Now you 32bit X-Fi owners have a good reason to switch to 64bit

Roberth

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From: The Pale Blue Dot

Registered: 2007-01-12

Posts: 894

Re: Finally, Creative X-Fi drivers are comming to linux.

Creative have stated that the driver will be released under both 32 bit and 64 bit. The driver is only beta at this point.

Last edited by Roberth (2007-09-29 22:18:11)

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