Comments on: Ubuntu Linux Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Driver Installation How To

By: ajay

ajay — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 13:36:51 +0000

hi_

By: craighuff

craighuff — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 20:02:55 +0000

Make sure you have the latest ALSA drivers installed (from Synaptic). Also:

It's:
make
sudo make install

If you continue to have problems please e-mail me using the contact form or better yet:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu

They will be able to assist you further. It helps to know what version of Linux you are running, what distro., what you've done thus far etc. So far not much is known.

Thanks!

By: Raixx

Raixx — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 19:56:33 +0000

hello! i have this sound card, and i tried to install drivers as zou told here.
everything worked well untill i went to step vere ih had to type make install. it says this..
rajko@rajko:~$ cd /home/rajko/desktop/
bash: cd: /home/rajko/desktop/: No such file or directory
rajko@rajko:~$ cd /home/rajko/Desktop
rajko@rajko:~/Desktop$ cd XFiDrv_Linux_Public_US_1.00
rajko@rajko:~/Desktop/XFiDrv_Linux_Public_US_1.00$ sudo make
[sudo] password for rajko:
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.28-15-generic/build M=/home/rajko/Desktop/XFiDrv_Linux_Public_US_1.00
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.28-15-generic'
LD /home/rajko/Desktop/XFiDrv_Linux_Public_US_1.00/built-in.o
CC [M] /home/rajko/Desktop/XFiDrv_Linux_Public_US_1.00/xfi.o
In file included from /home/rajko/Desktop/XFiDrv_Linux_Public_US_1.00/xfi.c:14:
include/sound/driver.h:1:2: warning: #warning "This file is deprecated"
In file included from /home/rajko/Desktop/XFiDrv_Linux_Public_US_1.00/ctatc.h:25,
from /home/rajko/Desktop/XFiDrv_Linux_Public_US_1.00/xfi.c:17:
include/sound/driver.h:1:2: warning: #warning "This file is deprecated"
CC [M] /home/rajko/Desktop/XFiDrv_Linux_Public_US_1.00/ctatc.o
In file included from /home/rajko/Desktop/XFiDrv_Linux_Public_US_1.00/ctatc.h:25,
from /home/rajko/Desktop/XFiDrv_Linux_Public_US_1.00/ctatc.c:18:
include/sound/driver.h:1:2: warning: #warning "This file is deprecated"
CC [M] /home/rajko/Desktop/XFiDrv_Linux_Public_US_1.00/ctvmem.o
CC [M] /home/rajko/Desktop/XFiDrv_Linux_Public_US_1.00/ctpcm.o
In file included from /home/rajko/Desktop/XFiDrv_Linux_Public_US_1.00/ctatc.h:25,
from /home/rajko/Desktop/XFiDrv_Linux_Public_US_1.00/ctpcm.h:21,
from /home/rajko/Desktop/XFiDrv_Linux_Public_US_1.00/ctpcm.c:18:
include/sound/driver.h:1:2: warning: #warning "This file is deprecated"
/home/rajko/Desktop/XFiDrv_Linux_Public_US_1.00/ctpcm.c: In function ‘ct_alsa_pcm_create’:
/home/rajko/Desktop/XFiDrv_Linux_Public_US_1.00/ctpcm.c:462: warning: passing argument 2 of ‘snd_pcm_new’ discards qualifiers from pointer target type
CC [M] /home/rajko/Desktop/XFiDrv_Linux_Public_US_1.00/ctmixer.o
In file included from /home/rajko/Desktop/XFiDrv_Linux_Public_US_1.00/ctatc.h:25,
from /home/rajko/Desktop/XFiDrv_Linux_Public_US_1.00/ctmixer.h:21,
from /home/rajko/Desktop/XFiDrv_Linux_Public_US_1.00/ctmixer.c:19:
include/sound/driver.h:1:2: warning: #warning "This file is deprecated"
CC [M] /home/rajko/Desktop/XFiDrv_Linux_Public_US_1.00/ctresource.o
CC [M] /home/rajko/Desktop/XFiDrv_Linux_Public_US_1.00/ctsrc.o
/home/rajko/Desktop/XFiDrv_Linux_Public_US_1.00/ctsrc.c: In function ‘put_src_rsc’:
/home/rajko/Desktop/XFiDrv_Linux_Public_US_1.00/ctsrc.c:569: warning: comparison of distinct pointer types lacks a cast
/home/rajko/Desktop/XFiDrv_Linux_Public_US_1.00/ctsrc.c:576: warning: comparison of distinct pointer types lacks a cast
/home/rajko/Desktop/XFiDrv_Linux_Public_US_1.00/ctsrc.c: In function ‘put_srcimp_rsc’:
/home/rajko/Desktop/XFiDrv_Linux_Public_US_1.00/ctsrc.c:883: warning: comparison of distinct pointer types lacks a cast
/home/rajko/Desktop/XFiDrv_Linux_Public_US_1.00/ctsrc.c:887: warning: comparison of distinct pointer types lacks a cast
/home/rajko/Desktop/XFiDrv_Linux_Public_US_1.00/ctsrc.c: In function ‘srcimp_imap_add’:
/home/rajko/Desktop/XFiDrv_Linux_Public_US_1.00/ctsrc.c:916: warning: comparison of distinct pointer types lacks a cast
/home/rajko/Desktop/XFiDrv_Linux_Public_US_1.00/ctsrc.c:922: warning: comparison of distinct pointer types lacks a cast
/home/rajko/Desktop/XFiDrv_Linux_Public_US_1.00/ctsrc.c: In function ‘srcimp_imap_delete’:
/home/rajko/Desktop/XFiDrv_Linux_Public_US_1.00/ctsrc.c:936: warning: comparison of distinct pointer types lacks a cast
/home/rajko/Desktop/XFiDrv_Linux_Public_US_1.00/ctsrc.c:942: warning: comparison of distinct pointer types lacks a cast
/home/rajko/Desktop/XFiDrv_Linux_Public_US_1.00/ctsrc.c: In function ‘srcimp_mgr_destroy’:
/home/rajko/Desktop/XFiDrv_Linux_Public_US_1.00/ctsrc.c:1004: warning: comparison of distinct pointer types lacks a cast
/home/rajko/Desktop/XFiDrv_Linux_Public_US_1.00/ctsrc.c:1006: warning: comparison of distinct pointer types lacks a cast
CC [M] /home/rajko/Desktop/XFiDrv_Linux_Public_US_1.00/ctamixer.o
/home/rajko/Desktop/XFiDrv_Linux_Public_US_1.00/ctamixer.c: In function ‘put_amixer_rsc’:
/home/rajko/Desktop/XFiDrv_Linux_Public_US_1.00/ctamixer.c:329: warning: comparison of distinct pointer types lacks a cast
/home/rajko/Desktop/XFiDrv_Linux_Public_US_1.00/ctamixer.c:333: warning: comparison of distinct pointer types lacks a cast
/home/rajko/Desktop/XFiDrv_Linux_Public_US_1.00/ctamixer.c: In function ‘put_sum_rsc’:
/home/rajko/Desktop/XFiDrv_Linux_Public_US_1.00/ctamixer.c:494: warning: comparison of distinct pointer types lacks a cast
/home/rajko/Desktop/XFiDrv_Linux_Public_US_1.00/ctamixer.c:498: warning: comparison of distinct pointer types lacks a cast
CC [M] /home/rajko/Desktop/XFiDrv_Linux_Public_US_1.00/ctdaio.o
/home/rajko/Desktop/XFiDrv_Linux_Public_US_1.00/ctdaio.c: In function ‘put_daio_rsc’:
/home/rajko/Desktop/XFiDrv_Linux_Public_US_1.00/ctdaio.c:537: warning: comparison of distinct pointer types lacks a cast
/home/rajko/Desktop/XFiDrv_Linux_Public_US_1.00/ctdaio.c:539: warning: comparison of distinct pointer types lacks a cast
/home/rajko/Desktop/XFiDrv_Linux_Public_US_1.00/ctdaio.c: In function ‘daio_imap

What should I do?

By: craighuff

craighuff — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 16:02:55 +0000

By: Raixx

Raixx — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 15:56:33 +0000

By: craighuff

craighuff — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:04:04 +0000

Luke. That will correct the issue.

I also appended the guide.

By: Luke

Luke — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 23:16:06 +0000

I believe he meant to do:
$ make
$ sudo make install

He may have gotten it backwards. make should require no root privileges unless root unpacked the original file. make install however requires root privs to copy the new binaries into their rightful places.

By: Ahmer

Ahmer — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 12:35:35 +0000

when i enter the command make install it says

Copy module files...
mkdir: cannot create directory `/lib/modules/2.6.28-15-generic/kernel/drivers/ssound': Permission denied
make: *** [install] Error 1

plzz help

By: craighuff

craighuff — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 20:17:58 +0000

No problem…

Anyway, the drivers and all of your soundcards (X-Fi) will work out of the box in the next release (Karmic) of Ubuntu. So, that is good news. Mine is already working as of Alpha 3. And it's working great as of Alpha 4 & 5.

By: just

just — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 20:16:02 +0000

yeah, thank you. This has saved a lot of time for me. I have smoked some weed and wanted to listen for some music, you know.

A?i?