sound card (x-fi) stutters, additional questions about linux sound architecture
After going through the painful 2-day process of installing drivers for my Creative X-Fi card, I was pleased to see the modules were loaded and everything was properly being detected. That was all good, until I heard the horrible excuse for sound that the card came up with. It is a stuttering sound, repeating the first 1/3 second of music for about 20 seconds then the next 1/3, etc.
Is this a problem with the driver? Or is there some other configuration I need to do with linux? Is there another layer to mess with between the driver and linux? Do I need to do anything with ALSA, or is that an alternative to the creative driver itself? You'll have to excuse my lack of understanding about the sound architecture in linux. I recompiled the 2.6.22.14 kernel configured with SLAB on Fedora 8, 64bit. I can't upgrade the kernel because the creative driver is such a pile it only works under the most restricted set of cases. Here is the output of lspci: Code:
00:00.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Host Bridge (rev a2) Any help is appreciated, even if it means pointing me in some direction. Thanks -Eric |
First thing I'd do is download and install the latest versions of Alsa-driver, Alsa-Util and Alsa-lib. They can be found here...
http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Main_Page Might not work, but it probably will. Shouldn't hurt anything if it doesn't work. Have you tried any other distros to see if they work out of the box with your hardware ? MintLinux includes quite a few drivers that other distros won't for philosophical or legal reasons. Might be worth checking out. Good luck... David |
The previous post's suggestion is a good one. If for some reason it doesn't work, try downloading and installing the latest version of pulseaudio, www.pulseaudio.org. I use Ubuntu (Gutsy, the latest version)and pulse audio will become the default sound system for the next version of Ubuntu, coming out in April. I've installed (out of need for flash audio support)on one of my 3 computers running ubuntu and it fixed the lack of audio from Flash videos (as in youtube videos).
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There are OSS drivers available for X-fi. Link below:
http://4front-tech.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=7485#7485 The driver works well for me in ubuntu gutsy x64. |
I had the same sound card in my comp. when i installed ubuntu 7.10/32 bit.
The driver is for 64 bit not 32bit. Creative will not release the chip specs for their top of the line card. Had to put an old sound blaster Audigy 2 card to get the sound to work. |
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