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Linux Drivers for Creative Sound cards

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ISA Boards

All Creative ISA soundcards are supported using ALSA drivers. Most Linux distributions include these drivers, although some distributions may not automatically find your card.

PCI Boards

Most SoundBlaster Live, Audigy, Audigy 2, and Audigy 4 cards are supported by the latest ALSA drivers. Most Linux distributions include these drivers. For the latest information on which cards are known to work with the ALSA drivers, look at ALSA's sound card matrix.

X-Fi series

April 16, 2008 X-Fi 32-bit / 64-bit BETA Linux drivers are now available.

Please check the Available DownLoads       Asia   US   World-Wide
Filename: XFiDrv_Linux_US-1.18.tar.gz

This download is a beta driver providing Linux® 32-bit / 64-bit OS support for Creative Sound Blaster® X-Fi™ series audio devices. For more details, read the rest of this web release note.

Take note of the following:

  • THIS IS AN UNSUPPORTED BETA DRIVER. There is no technical support for this driver.
  • This beta driver has only been tested on the following 32-bit / 64-bit Linux distributions: Ubuntu® 7.10, openSUSE® 10.3 and Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® 5.1 (64-bit only).
  • We recommend that only experienced users install this driver. Do not install this driver on a system used to perform critical tasks.
  • Your feedback is a valuable part of our development process. To submit feedback on this driver, visit the Sound Blaster X-Fi Linux Beta Driver Feedback Program.

This download is intended for the following audio devices only:

  • Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Elite Pro 
  • Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Platinum
  • Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatal1ty®
  • Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer
  • Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeMusic

Current release features:

  • ALSA PCM Playback
  • ALSA Record
  • ALSA Mixer

Added Features or Enhancements:

  • Supports GCC version 4
  • Supports Linux 64-bit and 32-bit OS

Known issues:

  • S/PDIF passthrough is not supported in this driver release.
  • External I/O modules are not supported in this driver release.
  • Applications from the original Sound Blaster X-Fi Installation CD will not work with this driver.

Requirements:

  • Linux x86 / x86_64 OS
  • Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi audio devices listed above

Notes:

  • To install the driver, do the following:
    1. Download the XFiDrv_Linux_US-1.18.tar.gz package onto your local hard disk.
    2. Double-click the downloaded package to unpack its contents.
    3. Read the README file and follow the instructions.

X-Fi Xtreme Audio ( SB0790 {Not 20k1 chipset}) Not sure if this driver works quite yet. Needs to be tested. Google Search
See the latest ALSA-Project driver for Module snd-ca0106 At the time of this writting, ALAS does not yet state X-Fi Xtreme Audio, but the source code does contain it. ALSA HOME page

X-Fi 20k1 seriesX-Fi series February 1, 2008
Open Sound NEWS (Home Page)
OSS v4.0 build 1013 for Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD and UnixWare announced.
Beta support for Creative Labs X-Fi announced. Including source code for the SB XFi has been released.

A customer sent the following message:
	   Open source support (beta) for X-fi announced:
	      http://4front-tech.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=7485#7485

	    Code is available under GPLv2, BSD and CDDL licenses.
	    Binary download: http://www.opensound.com/download.cgi
	    Sources: http://developer.opensound.com/sources/
September 25, 2007
X-Fi 64bit BETA Linux drivers are now available.
Please check the Available DownLoads       Asia   US   World-Wide

Or the general download Link
World-Wide Downloads
  • Select X-Fi ⇒ Sound Blaster ⇒ one of the Listed cards below ⇒ LINUX
This download is a beta driver providing Linux® 64-bit OS support for Creative Sound Blaster® X-Fi™ series audio devices. For more details, read the rest of this web release note.

Take note of the following:
  • THIS IS AN UNSUPPORTED BETA DRIVER. There is no technical support for this driver.
  • We recommend that only experienced users install this driver. Do not install this driver on a system used to perform critical tasks.
  • Your feedback is a valuable part of our development process.
    To submit feedback on this driver, visit the Sound Blaster X-Fi Linux Beta Driver Feedback Program.
This download is intended for the following audio devices only:
  • Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Elite Pro
  • Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Platinum
  • Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatal1ty®
  • Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer
  • Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeMusic
Current release features:
  • ALSA PCM Playback
  • ALSA MIDI Playback
  • ALSA Synth
  • ALSA Record
  • ALSA Mixer

Some OEM cards and the latest retail boards will not work with the drivers included in most Linux distributions. For those cards, try the latest code from ALSA or purchase a driver from 4FrontTechnologies.

USB Audio

The ALSA project supports USB audio, and Creative devices such as the XMod and Audigy 2 NX should work.

Extigy Driver


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