creative sound card- x-fi extreme gamer - Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB X-Fi - How to get 7.1 surround sound working in Ubuntu 9.04

To help you better we need some infos about your hardware so please open a Terminal from the menu Applications → Accessories → Terminal and type:

lspci

lspci is lower of LSPCI

copy and paste result here.

Thank you

Here is the info: Thx!!!

russ@russ-desktop:~$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: nVidia Corporation C55 Host Bridge (rev a2)
00:00.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C55 Memory Controller (rev a1)
00:00.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C55 Memory Controller (rev a1)
00:00.3 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C55 Memory Controller (rev a1)
00:00.4 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C55 Memory Controller (rev a1)
00:00.5 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C55 Memory Controller (rev a2)
00:00.6 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C55 Memory Controller (rev a1)
00:00.7 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C55 Memory Controller (rev a1)
00:01.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C55 Memory Controller (rev a1)
00:01.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C55 Memory Controller (rev a1)
00:01.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C55 Memory Controller (rev a1)
00:01.3 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C55 Memory Controller (rev a1)
00:01.4 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C55 Memory Controller (rev a1)
00:01.5 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C55 Memory Controller (rev a1)
00:01.6 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C55 Memory Controller (rev a1)
00:02.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C55 Memory Controller (rev a1)
00:02.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C55 Memory Controller (rev a1)
00:02.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C55 Memory Controller (rev a1)
00:03.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation C55 PCI Express bridge (rev a1)
00:06.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation C55 PCI Express bridge (rev a1)
00:07.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation C55 PCI Express bridge (rev a1)
00:09.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP55 Memory Controller (rev a1)
00:0a.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP55 LPC Bridge (rev a2)
00:0a.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation MCP55 SMBus (rev a2)
00:0b.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP55 USB Controller (rev a1)
00:0b.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP55 USB Controller (rev a2)
00:0d.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP55 IDE (rev a1)
00:0e.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP55 SATA Controller (rev a2)
00:0e.1 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP55 SATA Controller (rev a2)
00:0e.2 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP55 SATA Controller (rev a2)
00:0f.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP55 PCI bridge (rev a2)
00:11.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP55 Ethernet (rev a2)
00:12.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP55 Ethernet (rev a2)
00:13.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP55 PCI Express bridge (rev a2)
00:14.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP55 PCI Express bridge (rev a2)
00:15.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP55 PCI Express bridge (rev a2)
00:16.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP55 PCI Express bridge (rev a2)
00:17.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP55 PCI Express bridge (rev a2)
00:18.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP55 PCI Express bridge (rev a2)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G80 [GeForce 8800 GTX] (rev a2)
04:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB X-Fi
04:0b.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6306 Fire II IEEE 1394 OHCI Link Layer Controller (rev c0)
russ@russ-desktop:~$

Hi,

In case nobody else can help you, you might want to have a look at the FAQ:
FAQ #112: “Sound Problems”.

Hi,

This is apparently a long-known bug in Ubuntu:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/linux/+bug/63352

I am not sure it will help, but can you try the suggestions from user Plasma_NZ on the following link?

http://ph.ubuntuforums.com/showthread.php?t=795192

After that, please try installing OSS4 as described below:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/OpenSound

I think you will have a better chance of success using OSS4 than using alsa (as sound system) with your x-fi extreme gamer card.

Regards,

Mark

Hi,

One more thing:

The OSS4 sound system seems to have "early beta" level support for your card:

One of the following modules in OSS4 should hopefully support your card:

oss_sbxfi pci1102,5 Creative SB X-Fi *EARLY BETA*
oss_sbxfi pci1102,9 Creative SB X-Fi (PCI-e) *EARLY BETA*
oss_sbxfi pci1102,b Creative SB X-Fi (PCI-e) *EARLY BETA*

The X-fi module is limited to stereo output at the time of this writing...

Regards,

Mark

Hey Creative released a drive today that works for me

http://arstechnica.com/journals/linux.ars/2008/11/06/creative-releases-linux-x-fi-driver-under-the-gpl

USE THE LATEST VERSION OF ALSA:
http://monespaceperso.org/blog-en/2009/05/09/upgrade-alsa-1020-on-ubuntu-jaunty-904/

THEN LOAD THE XFI DRIVER:
http://wiki.debian.org/X-Fi OR http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/tiwai/snapshot/

NOW I AM GETTING 7.1 SURROUND ON UBUNTU 9.04