New Sound Card on PCI-e Bus

Quakeboy02 · 11-25-2012, 08:46 PM

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):

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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):

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snd_ctxfi              72167  0 
snd_hda_codec_ca0110     5328  1 
snd_hda_intel          18904  2 
snd_hda_codec          51822  2 snd_hda_codec_ca0110,snd_hda_intel
snd_hwdep               5428  1 snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm_oss            31781  0 
snd_mixer_oss          12663  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm                60513  4 snd_ctxfi,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_seq_midi            4406  0 
snd_rawmidi            15618  1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_midi_event      4730  1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq                42040  3 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_timer              16049  2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device          4491  3 snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
snd                    46095  17 snd_ctxfi,snd_hda_codec_ca0110,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
soundcore               4630  1 snd
snd_page_alloc          6025  3 snd_ctxfi,snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm

dmesg contains these complaints:

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[  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.

cascade9 · 11-26-2012, 12:15 AM

X-Fi Xtreme Audio PCIe is listed as 'does not work' at alsa-

http://www.alsa-project.org/main/ind...-Creative_Labs

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.

Quakeboy02 · 11-26-2012, 09:37 AM

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.

Quakeboy02 · 11-27-2012, 05:31 PM

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.