X-fi Extreme Gamer With Opensuse 10.3

I am having a bit of trouble gettign the beta X-Fi driver to work in openSUSE 10.3. It jsut doesn't seem to complie. I have installed gcc and the kernel source. I will provide the log it make in terminal when i am installing. It would be nice if it would work cause it is almost pointless with out sound. All advice will be greatly accepted!



Terminal Log:



Installation is in progress. Please wait...
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables...
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed
checking for ranlib... ranlib
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for egrep... grep -E
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking for an ANSI C-conforming const... yes
checking for inline... inline
checking whether time.h and sys/time.h may both be included... yes
checking whether gcc needs -traditional... no
checking for current directory... /opt/Creative/XFiDrv_Linux_US-1.18/drivers
checking cross compile...
checking for directory with kernel source... /lib/modules/2.6.22.17-0.1-bigsmp/source
checking for directory with kernel build... /lib/modules/2.6.22.17-0.1-bigsmp/build
checking for directory with ALSA include files... /lib/modules/2.6.22.17-0.1-bigsmp/source/include
checking for kernel linux/version.h... yes
checking for kernel linux/autoconf.h... yes
checking for kernel version... 2.6.22.17-0.1-bigsmp
checking for GCC version... Kernel compiler: Used compiler: gcc (GCC) 4.2.1 (SUSE Linux)

*** NO PREDEFINED KERNEL COMPILER IS DETECTED
*** Assuming the same compiler is used with the current system compiler.

*** Please make sure that the same compiler version was used for building kernel.

checking for built-in ALSA... no
checking for existing ALSA module... yes
checking to modify of kernel linux/kmod.h... no
checking for kernel linux/compiler.h... yes
checking for kernel linux/pm.h... yes
checking for kernel linux/spinlock.h... yes
checking for kernel linux/irq.h... yes
checking for kernel linux/threads.h... yes
checking for kernel linux/rwsem.h... yes
checking for kernel linux/gameport.h... yes
checking for kernel linux/devfs_fs_kernel.h... no
Creating a dummy <linux/devfs_fs_kernel.h>...
checking for kernel linux/highmem.h... yes
checking for kernel linux/workqueue.h... yes
checking for kernel linux/dma-mapping.h... yes
checking for kernel asm/hw_irq.h... no
Creating a dummy <asm/hw_irq.h>...
checking for kernel linux/device.h... yes
checking for kernel linux/platform_device.h... yes
checking for kernel linux/jiffies.h... yes
checking for kernel linux/compat.h... yes
checking for kernel linux/adb.h... yes
checking for kernel linux/cuda.h... yes
checking for kernel linux/pmu.h... yes
checking for kernel linux/moduleparam.h... yes
checking for kernel linux/syscalls.h... yes
checking for kernel linux/firmware.h... yes
checking for kernel linux/err.h... yes
checking for kernel linux/bitmap.h... yes
checking for kernel linux/mutex.h... yes
checking for kernel module symbol versions... yes
checking for PCI support in kernel... yes
checking for I2C driver in kernel... module
checking for firmware loader... module
checking for input subsystem in kernel... yes
checking for directory to store kernel modules... /lib/modules/2.6.22.17-0.1-bigsmp/kernel/sound
checking for ISA support in kernel... yes
checking for processor type... i586
checking for i386 machine type... default
checking for ISA DMA API... yes
checking for SMP... yes
checking for Video device support in kernel... yes
checking for strlcpy... no
checking for snprintf... no
checking for vsnprintf... no
checking for scnprintf... no
checking for sscanf... no
checking for vmalloc_to_page... no
checking for old kmod... yes
checking for PDE... no
checking for pci_set_consistent_dma_mask... no
checking for pci_dev_present... no
checking for msleep... no
checking for msecs_to_jiffies... no
checking for tty->count is the atomic type... no
checking for video_get_drvdata... no
checking for io_remap_pfn_range... no
checking for new io_remap_page_range... no
checking for kcalloc... no
checking for kstrdup... no
checking for kzalloc... no
checking for create_workqueue with flags... no
checking for saved_config_space in pci_dev... no
checking for register_sound_special_device... no
checking for RTC callback support in kernel... no
checking for HPET support... yes
checking for Procfs support... yes
checking for class_simple... no
checking for old driver suspend/resume callbacks... no
checking for removal of page-reservation for nopage/mmap... no
checking for nested class_device... no
checking for new unlocked/compat_ioctl... no
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating Makefile.conf
make: *** [all] Error 2
make: *** [install] Error 2
Installation Unsuccessful

Creative's driver wasn't very sucessful from what I've read, most people seem to use the driver OSS released, you can get it from here:

http://www.opensound.com/download.cgi

This worked for me:

Installed it from a console without X running (use the init 3 command as root to drop into a console)

Login as root and use rpm -i oss_driver_filename.rpm to run the installer

Reboot

Once back into your desktop run the command osstest and you should hear some music if all went well

Don't need to be root to run osstest


I haven't worked out how to get a volume control working yet so am using media apps volume sliders for that, but at least I have sound

Rune

Creative's driver wasn't very sucessful from what I've read, most people seem to use the driver OSS released, you can get it from here:
http://www.opensound.com/download.cgi

This worked for me:

Installed it from a console without X running (use the init 3 command as root to drop into a console)

Login as root and use rpm -i oss_driver_filename.rpm to run the installer

Reboot

Once back into your desktop run the command osstest and you should hear some music if all went well

Don't need to be root to run osstest
I haven't worked out how to get a volume control working yet so am using media apps volume sliders for that, but at least I have sound

Rune
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Ok, i am about to do that. I will post a reply here letting you know of my status on that. Thanks for your help and i will try that.

I installed they way stated and i still have no sound. I did the osstest and i heard nothing. Also skype doesn't work now after installing that.

I've read that some people had to remove alsa before they could get the oss driver to work, although I didn't have to do that myself

What I did have to do though was disable my onboard sound in bios


When you say skype doesn't work do you mean it fails to open?

If I get an application that won't open I try running it from a terminal as it shows the error which stops it from opening which can be a help in fixing it


Opensound.com have a forum and being the people who created and released the driver that may be place to look for help in resolving problems with it, I don't know enough about any issues with it to help any more than I have as it worked without any trouble for me

I think my card's a different model to yours though, it's the f4tality version

If you can't get sound at all with the oss driver and it's causing other problems you can remove it with rpm -e in much the same way as you used rpm -i to install it (it also appears in Yast's Software Management tool on my system)

Rune

I am having a bit of trouble gettign the beta X-Fi driver to work in openSUSE 10.3.
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Take a look in the thread, Sloter -> http://www.suseforums.net/index.php?showtopic=49004

That might help.

i uninstalled alsa and reinstall oss and still my skype starts up for a second and closes down, it isn't even in the notification area. Also i still hear no sound.