Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio PCI-E driver help needed

[vegasboy423]

Hello all-

I have a "Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio PCI-E" sound card and I cannot get the drivers to work. I am running openSUSE 11.1 64bit version. I found the right drivers from here but when I try to install I am getting error msg.

Here is what the readme file says:

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Sound Blaster X-Fi Linux 32/64-bit Driver Source Release Readme File

September 2008


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The purpose of this document is to describe how to build and install the
X-Fi Linux device driver.






Quick install


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In terminal,


1) Goto source directory

2) Execute make command as root

make

make install



Uninstall

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In terminal,

1) Goto source directory

2) Execute make command as root

make uninstall





Copyright (c) 2008 Creative Technology Ltd. All rights reserved.

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End of Readme File

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Here is what my Terminal looks like:

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linux-v9qj:/home/art/Desktop # tar -xzf XFiDrv_Linux_Public_US_1.00.tar.gz
linux-v9qj:/home/art/Desktop # cd XFiDrv_Linux_Public_US_1.00/
linux-v9qj:/home/art/Desktop/XFiDrv_Linux_Public_US_1.00 # make
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.27.7-9-default/build M=/home/art/Desktop/XFiDrv_Linux_Public_US_1.00
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.27.7-9-obj/x86_64/default'
make[1]: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.27.7-9-obj/x86_64/default'
make: *** [all] Error 2
linux-v9qj:/home/art/Desktop/XFiDrv_Linux_Public_US_1.00 #
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Can someone please tell me what I am doing wrong?

Thanks!

[oldcpu]

Originally Posted by vegasboy423

Can someone please tell me what I am doing wrong?

I thought XFi was not supported in 11.1 ? Support is planned for 11.2. But I don't really know.

When I look here:
Matrix:Vendor-Creative Labs - AlsaProject
... it notes 1.0.21 of alsa is needed.

openSUSE-11.1 comes with 1.0.17/1.0.18 of alsa and not with 1.0.21 of alsa. But openSUSE-11.2 will likely have 1.0.21 of alsa in the kernel.

I supposed you could try updating alsa to 1.0.21 (per this url where six zypper commands are required Alsa-update - openSUSE ) , or simply wait until 11.2 GM is released.