Fedora 10 and SoundBlaster X-FI Xtreme Audio

[90sgamer]

When a blackout broke my onboard sound hardware, I bought a Creative SoundBlaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio (PCIe). It had no problems with Vista, but I tried it on both Ubuntu 9.04 x64 and Fedora 10 x64 (the one currently on my Linux partition). No output whatsoever. I googled and found some year-old threads which basically concluded that the ALSA team is working on it and that Creative sucks for not bothering to write Linux drivers. This is not helpful.

Is there anything I can do short of buying another sound card? Does anyone know the status of the ALSA team's work on this? Keep in mind that those beta drivers that Creative put out are for every X-Fi model except for my cheap little Xtreme Audio, so there goes that solution.

[dac9]

Are you using optical out on this card?

[90sgamer]

Are you using optical out on this card?

No, nor do I have an optical-compatible output device. I'm trying to use the digital (green) output.

On a side note, it seems that my mobo-integrated sound hardware actually does work. It was just the front jack that broke. I'd like to get the PCIe card working though if possible; it might be just me, but the integrated hardware sounds horrible by comparison.

[marko]

When a blackout broke my onboard sound hardware, I bought a Creative SoundBlaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio (PCIe). It had no problems with Vista, but I tried it on both Ubuntu 9.04 x64 and Fedora 10 x64 (the one currently on my Linux partition). No output whatsoever. I googled and found some year-old threads which basically concluded that the ALSA team is working on it and that Creative sucks for not bothering to write Linux drivers. This is not helpful.

Is there anything I can do short of buying another sound card? Does anyone know the status of the ALSA team's work on this? Keep in mind that those beta drivers that Creative put out are for every X-Fi model except for my cheap little Xtreme Audio, so there goes that solution.

you can grab the open sourced source files themselves and build it
see my post #6 here:

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showpost.php?p=1120984&postcount=6

But the links I have in their probably don't work because of their web site design,
you need to go to their front page, click the Support link -> X-Fi -> X-Fi Xtreme Audio
then in the 'latest downloads' search tool type in "linux" . That will take you to the file for the open source
driver, the file name is XFiDrv_Linux_Public_US_1.00.tar.gz

Then the instructions in my post 6 should be followed. Anyway, in a while the alsa package will have
the driver in it as snd-ctxfi and so you won't have to build the open driver.