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I installed a Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio SB1040EF (CA0110-IBF) in my system, and no sound. I've seen a bunch of older references to problems with this card, and most seemed to relate to snd-ctxfi; which I have enabled in my kernel. The snd-hda-intel module seems to want to service this card, and running "aplay -L" gives the following which looks good (I think):
Code:
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Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)
default:CARD=Generic
HD-Audio Generic, CA0110 Analog
Default Audio Device
front:CARD=Generic,DEV=0
HD-Audio Generic, CA0110 Analog
Front speakers
surround40:CARD=Generic,DEV=0
HD-Audio Generic, CA0110 Analog
4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers
surround41:CARD=Generic,DEV=0
HD-Audio Generic, CA0110 Analog
4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround50:CARD=Generic,DEV=0
HD-Audio Generic, CA0110 Analog
5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers
surround51:CARD=Generic,DEV=0
HD-Audio Generic, CA0110 Analog
5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround71:CARD=Generic,DEV=0
HD-Audio Generic, CA0110 Analog
7.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Side, Rear and Woofer speakers
iec958:CARD=Generic,DEV=0
HD-Audio Generic, CA0110 Digital
IEC958 (S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output
output from lsmod |grep -i snd is (note I did a manual modprobe snd-ctxfi, no help):
[ 499.783729] hda-intel: spurious response 0x0:0x0, last cmd=0x000000
[ 516.034117] hda-intel: spurious response 0x0:0x0, last cmd=0x000000
My system is an ECS 7050M-M mobo with an AMD Phenom 9750 quad core, 4GB RAM, a bunch of disks, PCR-150 vid capture, and a serial port. I nominally use Debian Squeeze, but with a custom kernel compiled from 2.6.32.9. I tried to install the latest alsa, but ran into compile problems due to kernel incompatibilities and didn't feel like playing hunt the wumpus with that.
So, what do I look for? I don't really have a good understanding of sound system setup. All I did to install this board was disable the mobo realtek sound adapter, install this card, and boot it up.
While I've seen reports of people getting the PCIe version of the X-Fi Xtreme Audio working with linux, its not going to be much fun from what I can see.
Any chance you can retrun it and buy a supported card?....Hoepfully not a creative.
Yeah, this was probably not the most thoughtful purchase I've made in the past year. My original goal was just to get Quake 3 Arena running again. It does not work with the motherboard's sound card, and I remembered that it works with SoundBlaster cards. And, it's an ebay purchase, and I just really (really) don't want to get involved in a return. I have noticed a couple of comments from people who seemed to have this card running, but they didn't post any specifics. If I could find an inexpensive card that would run Q3A, that would satisfy my goal, though.
OK, I found an alternative that, on first glance, is working. I installed OSS4. It doesn't seem to want to allow both soundcards, but that's not an issue at the moment.
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