Finally, A Creative X-Fi Driver Going Into ALSA

[deanjo]

Are there a great differnce between Audigy2 and X-fi under Linux ?

The audigy / 2 / live etc have alot more funttionality and features then the current x-fi drivers. The x-fi drivers are very basic at this point in time.

[harl]

At last I can swap out my audigy 2 with my nice new x-fi!

Don't worry, you didn't make me wait as long as Duke Nukem Forever or TF2 <3

Are there a great differnce between Audigy2 and X-fi under Linux ?

[faemir]

I believe Kernel v2.6.31 should have this driver built right in.

woo! It's about time :P

[rv65]

I believe Kernel v2.6.31 should have this driver built right in.

[Setlec]

It works fine. Don't expect to see a mixer panel and features you see on a older Audigy by any means but the basics work well.

BTW for those that are interested, I got Takashi Iwai to backport it, (he graciously took the 1/2 day to do so) into the openSUSE Factory kernel (which sits at 2.6.30) so in the next milestone release of 11.2 you should be able to start utilizing x-fi's even on the live cd's starting with that release.

it's better than the actuall intel_hda_snd driver that i'm using! I can't even use my mic with skype, ekiga or mumble.... the onboard sound card are good on windows but can't configure for best perfomance on linux...

[deanjo]

When you say the basics, does that include full 5.1/7.1 surround sound support?

Yes 5.1 / 7.1 speaker configs are supported.

[faemir]

It works fine. Don't expect to see a mixer panel and features you see on a older Audigy by any means but the basics work well.

BTW for those that are interested, I got Takashi Iwai to backport it, (he graciously took the 1/2 day to do so) into the openSUSE Factory kernel (which sits at 2.6.30) so in the next milestone release of 11.2 you should be able to start utilizing x-fi's even on the live cd's starting with that release.

When you say the basics, does that include full 5.1/7.1 surround sound support?

[deanjo]

is it worth to buy a X-fi titanium PCIe to use on linux with the actual FOSS driver?

It works fine. Don't expect to see a mixer panel and features you see on a older Audigy by any means but the basics work well.

BTW for those that are interested, I got Takashi Iwai to backport it, (he graciously took the 1/2 day to do so) into the openSUSE Factory kernel (which sits at 2.6.30) so in the next milestone release of 11.2 you should be able to start utilizing x-fi's even on the live cd's starting with that release.

[Setlec]

is it worth to buy a X-fi titanium PCIe to use on linux with the actual FOSS driver?

[hax0r]

I get the same error with my Auzentech Prelude.
I've mailed the list about it.

Oh nice, I mailed in too but did not see any other requests. Btw all X-Fi based cards should work now, hopefully this hack hits 2.6.31 upstream if it hasn't already .