Creative X-FI Soundblaster Drivers released v1.18 [HOWTO]

wingrunr21 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 13 May 2005 Posts: 91

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audiodef · Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 5:04 pm Post subject:

After recompiling the kernel with ALSA as modules, I got the driver compiled and installed. I started ctsound....

Now what? I went and opened a web browser and played a video. No sound. Did I miss something?

This is the output of dmesg | grep sound:

wingrunr21 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 13 May 2005 Posts: 91

Is your sound unmuted in alsamixer?

audiodef · Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 5:15 pm Post subject:

wingrunr21 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 13 May 2005 Posts: 91

Did the modules get loaded correctly? lsmod should tell you. Also, see if alsamixer sees the card.

audiodef · Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 7:34 pm Post subject:

They seemed to be. I didn't notice any errors when I watched the modules load at startup. This is my lsmod:

hollovoid7 · Posted: Sun May 11, 2008 8:08 pm Post subject:

Has anybody figured out why ctsound script doesnt work on startup., but works fine when you run ctsound start manually?
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the_root · Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 1:12 am Post subject:

hollovoid7 · Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 1:49 am Post subject:

Actually I realized that right after I posted, didnt see the small footnote that file was in, very cool it works now!
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mrmailer · n00b Joined: 18 Jan 2006 Posts: 3

Ok, this seems to stop working with 2.6.25

I did the shirq change and I still get this...

make KBUILD_NOPEDANTIC=1
make: *** [all] Error 2

audiodef · Posted: Wed May 14, 2008 6:26 pm Post subject:

I totally fried my system, so I'm starting over with 2008 beta. I'll post here on how it goes with this sound card on a brand new install.
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beany · n00b Joined: 15 May 2008 Posts: 1

hello, so Im using Suse 10.3. and iv installed the drivers as listed above by the_root, firstly i installed using the command displayed by the_root, which didn't appear to do anything,I then read the readme and used configure and make as stand user, then make install as root, and once again nothing, until i ran anything with sound as root...witch gave me working sound... any help to get the sound in a standard user account muchos appreciated.

dAlexis · Posted: Sun May 18, 2008 12:06 pm Post subject: Re: X-fi 1.18.2

mrmailer · n00b Joined: 18 Jan 2006 Posts: 3

ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:03:03.0[A] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 23
allocation failed: out of vmalloc space - use vmalloc=<size> to increase size.
BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/mutex.c:87
in_atomic():1, irqs_disabled():0
Pid: 2789, comm: modprobe Tainted: P 2.6.24.4-64.fc8 #1
[<c062b3ae>] mutex_lock+0x15/0x29
[<c04920c9>] open_namei+0xe7/0x558
[<c0487802>] do_filp_open+0x25/0x39

Still getting this error when I load ctalsa

Sonic-NZ · n00b Joined: 07 Jun 2008 Posts: 1

I think I might have a similar problem to audiodef.

I followed the instructions on the wiki, I'm using 2.6.24.4 as my kernel - so I modded the sources from Creative with regards to the ctsound file ordering (for module loading) and the IRQ problem. The make initially failed, but configure hadn't figure out my architecture so modifying Makefile.conf sorted that one. It all compiled fine, make install succeeded.

When I run /etc/init.d/ctsound start I get:
Starting ctsound: Building and installing modules...Failed to install modules. Exit...

lsmod gives me this:

lancelott · Apprentice Joined: 29 Mar 2005 Posts: 152

When are new drivers going to become available?

These drivers just suck. I'd like to hear some good news from ALSA but it seems like nothing is happening (yet).

I'm tired of the pops, crackles, and tempo changes.
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jbdubbs · n00b Joined: 04 Jan 2006 Posts: 41

Question for the author of the baselayout 2 init script: Why do you unload all snd-.* before loading the X-Fi driver?

seeker010 · n00b Joined: 22 Jun 2008 Posts: 1

OSS emulation under ALSA with these drivers causes very loud screeching for me, and since vmware only uses OSS, this is a bit of a problem.
found that using dmix causes crackling. removing dmix from asound, or removing asound.conf fixes the background static for me.
does anyone have a solution for the OSS under ALSA problem?

audiodef · Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 2:32 pm Post subject:

Mr_Maniac · Guru Joined: 10 Jun 2004 Posts: 543

Well... This driver is "funny"...
Some Applications that are using ALSA are just working fine without any crackling sound etc. (xmms and xine for example) and some others just sound really awful (mplayer for example

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jbdubbs · n00b Joined: 04 Jan 2006 Posts: 41

Tried following the directions for 2.6.25 both on the wiki and went through this forum again. Everything compiles fine, but I get "Invalid Module Format" or something along those lines when loading the modules from ctsound.

Switched back to 2.6.24 for now, which is working like a charm. Any ideas?

xraver · Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2008 4:33 am Post subject:

The Drivers works for me on gentoo-sources-2.6.25. But not on 2.6.26zen.
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iSacrifice · n00b Joined: 12 Jul 2008 Posts: 3 Location: Russia, Moscow

Hello. I'm stuck with installation of these drivers: http://cincev.com/mnt/store/users/admin/xfidrv-1.18.2.tgz. I did everything as written, including cleaning of old installations. Actually, everything stops at the point of "creating Makefile.conf" of "./configure && make && make install && rc-update -a ctsound default && reboot" command.
Here are few last rows of //var/log/creative-installer.log:

titanium972 · n00b Joined: 24 Jan 2008 Posts: 3

Hi,

Now i have my sound card OK, but my nvidia 8800 GTS will not start now with X, he get me
"NVIDIA : could not open the device file /dev/nvidia0 (Input/Output error)"
If i remove ctsound from my boot, i can start X

I have nforce 4 MB, for info.

Which solution for solve my pb ?

(Sorry for my english , i'm french)