Installing X-fi 64 Bit Drivers

Hey,

I'm having great difficulty installing X-Fi drivers on my computer. My distro is Ubuntu Hardy Heron, my processor and operating system are both 64 bit. I have a Creative X-Fi Music card, last time I tried linux there were no drivers available so I had to use Windows. Now that beta drivers are out I would like to become familar with Ubuntu.

So far this is what I've tried,
I have download two types of drivers. Creatives ones and the OSS ones. I can get neither to work.
Creative Drivers
OSS Drivers

I downloaded the AMD64 DEB ones from OSS. Then I extracted and opened with 'GDebi Package Installer', it said installed but no sound.

The Creative ones, there is only one type of driver. One size fits all I suppose. I tried to follow the read me instructions which are

Quick install

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1) You must have the fully configured source for the Linux kernel and
ALSA which you
want to use for this device driver. Partial installed
kernels (e.g. From distribution makers) may be unusable for this
action.
2) Run one of the following commands as root in the terminal:
./installer OR ./installer --with-alsainc=<ALSA_include_directory>
* ALSA Source Tree

On 2.6 kernels, the location of the ALSA source include directory
is parsed automatically from the running kernel.
If it is not in the standard place, specify the path via
--with-alsainc=<ALSA_include_directory>.
On 2.4 kernels, the location of the ALSA source include directory
must be specified via --with-alsainc=<ALSA_include_directory>.
* Note
If integrated ALSA is to be used to build, --with-alsainc option
must not be specified.[/b]

However when I type "su -" and enter my password to login as root it just says Authentication failure!

If somebody could walk me through this I would be much appreciated. I'm new to Linux, so explain as if you were giving instructions to your grandmother.

Dev

You might just want to ask at the Ubuntu Forum.

My distro is Ubuntu Hardy Heron,[/b]

It would be more likely to find folks that are familiar with the setup. Meaning no disrespect to anyone here on this Forum that just happens to know how to load the driver. B)

Thanks, I have made a post on the ubuntu forums but no reply unfortunately. It's very busy and unlikely my post was read. I have decided to make my problem more specific. That way somebody could help me with this bit of the problem.

Anyway I've been following the instructions of this thread.

I'm having problems with instruction 6. After I type in the command I get this in the terminal.

dpkg-split: error reading oss-linux_v4.0-1015_amd64: Is a directory
dpkg: error processing oss-linux_v4.0-1015_amd64 (--install):
 subprocess dpkg-split returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
 oss-linux_v4.0-1015_amd64

Dev

Thanks, I have made a post on the ubuntu forums but no reply unfortunately. It's very busy and unlikely my post was read. I have decided to make my problem more specific. That way somebody could help me with this bit of the problem.

Anyway I've been following the instructions of this thread.

I'm having problems with instruction 6. After I type in the command I get this in the terminal.

dpkg-split: error reading oss-linux_v4.0-1015_amd64: Is a directory
dpkg: error processing oss-linux_v4.0-1015_amd64 (--install):
 subprocess dpkg-split returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
 oss-linux_v4.0-1015_amd64

Dev
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I got the setup to work after installing the ALSA & Kernel source code.

OK, I have gotten by that bit, I needed to perform the command on the .deb file. I was performing the command on the extracted file. Now that the command works or at least doesn't return just errors.

sean@sean-desktop:~/Desktop$ sudo dpkg -i oss-linux_v4.0-1015_amd64.deb
[sudo] password for sean: 
(Reading database ... 109150 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace oss-linux v4.0-1015 (using oss-linux_v4.0-1015_amd64.deb) ...
sh: Can't open /usr/lib/oss/scripts/restore_drv.sh
dpkg: warning - old pre-removal script returned error exit status 2
dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ...
sh: Can't open /usr/lib/oss/scripts/restore_drv.sh
dpkg: error processing oss-linux_v4.0-1015_amd64.deb (--install):
 subprocess new pre-removal script returned error exit status 2
Building OSS Modules for Linux-unknown 2.6.24-16-generic
cd: 3: can't cd to /usr/lib/oss/build
sh: Can't open install.sh
Starting Open Sound System
cat: /usr/lib/oss/version.dat: No such file or directory
/usr/lib/oss/etc/devices.list: No such file or directory
No /usr/lib/oss/etc/installed_drivers - cannot continue
Errors were encountered while processing:
 oss-linux_v4.0-1015_amd64.deb

How did you get it to work using ALSA.

Dev

OK, I have gotten by that bit, I needed to perform the command on the .deb file.
[/b]

Take a look here. This thread is assuming you downloaded the .tar.gz file off the creative open source website and extracted that.

It also works with ALSA. I have the card working at the moment in ALSA with the help of this thread. Altho I cannot actually get it working in alsacfg I have sound everywhere.

Good luck!