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kadragon

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Registered: 2009-08-02

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x-fi working without installing alsa or oss

I used yoaurt to install the ctxfi package and it got my sound working but I never installed ALSA or OSS.  I looked at the output to see if one of them was installed as a dependency, but I didn't see anything. 

Are there any potential problems with this setup?

sand_man

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From: Australia

Registered: 2008-06-10

Posts: 2,164

Re: x-fi working without installing alsa or oss

Hmm, I think this driver is used instead of alsa or oss.

From AUR

Comment by: Svenstaro on Wed, 27 May 2009 23:33:50 +0000

    A fully working ctxfi driver has been created for ALSA. It currently builds against 2.6.30 and will likely be included in 2.6.31. It is superior to this Creative-made driver in every way and should exclusively be used in the future for Creative X-fi products. Find more information here: http://mailman.alsa-project.org/piperma … 17332.html

    Thought I should post the heads up here

Last edited by sand_man (2009-08-21 02:30:08)

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skottish

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Re: x-fi working without installing alsa or oss

ALSA is a kernel module now. Every other ALSA package adds functionality.

brebs

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Re: x-fi working without installing alsa or oss

I never installed ALSA or OSS.

Oh yes you did. ALSA is in the kernel, as is ctxfi (starting with kernel 2.6.31).

ctxfi is an ALSA driver, so will not work without ALSA.

sand_man

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From: Australia

Registered: 2008-06-10

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Re: x-fi working without installing alsa or oss

I never installed ALSA or OSS.

Oh yes you did. ALSA is in the kernel, as is ctxfi (starting with kernel 2.6.31).

ctxfi is an ALSA driver, so will not work without ALSA.

Thanks for the info.

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