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kreon28
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 Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 7:35 pm Post subject: Sound Blaster X-Fi problem |
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Hi,
I had SB Audigy 2 with alsa drivers compiled by emerge. I took it out, put in X-Fi, unmerged all alsa stuff and delete alsasound from rc-update.
Then I recompiled my kernel with alsa built in and rest built as a modules.
After all I couldn't install officially released drivers - got Error 2 message. I've tried gentoo-wiki way but that didn't help.
Finally I found that ebuild : https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=193670 which passed successfully. I did
| Code: | | /etc/init.d/ctsound start |
but one of the modules freezed my box so I took some other ctsound file. It comes with gentoo-wiki. Now when I do | Code: | | # /etc/init.d/ctsound start |
it looks like that
| Code: | | * Loading X-Fi drivers ... |
and nothing happens.
I emerged alsa-utils but it is still the same problem.
I wonder what is wrong and where I should look for a problem... |
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FallenWizard
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Joined: 04 Sep 2007
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Location: Vienna / Austria
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Use OSSv4. The creative drivers sucks and it requires outdated software.
Most applications works with OSSv4 fine and it has better audio quality than ALSA.
http://gentoo-wiki.com/OSS4
Just make sure that you are using --newuse after enabling the OSS useflag and that you are using the oss-devel package. |
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