I can't get my X-Fi XtremeMusic to work.

English Hardware
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I’m a new Linux user, so I don’t really know what I’m doing as of yet; so please bear with me. :slight_smile:

I installed the 64 bit (I have a 64 bit dual core CPU) version of SUSE 11.0, and I’m running the KDE 4.0.4 desktop. Everything is up and running except for my sound card. My sound card is the Creative Labs Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtrememusic, and I downloaded the recently released drivers from Creative Labs from here.

Once downloaded, I extracted the files to my desktop, and followed the instructions which are:
"In terminal,

  1. Goto source directory
  2. Execute make command as root
    make
    make install"

Logged in as root, I typed “make” and got this:

“make -C /lib/modules/2.6.25.18-0.2-default/build M=/home/deabionni/Desktop/Xfi
make[1]: Entering directory /usr/src/linux-2.6.25.18-0.2-obj/x86_64/default' make[1]: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop. make[1]: Leaving directory /usr/src/linux-2.6.25.18-0.2-obj/x86_64/default’
make: *** [all] Error 2”

Then I typed “make install” and got this:

“Copy module files…
cp: cannot stat `ctxfi.ko’: No such file or directory
make: *** [install] Error 1”

Any ideas as to what’s going wrong?

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make sure you have installed:

make
gcc

you may also need
kernel-source

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^^^Thanks for the tip! I installed make earlier, as that didn’t install by default.

I just checked to see if gcc and kernel-source were installed, and both of them needed installed as well. Once installed, I was able to run make & make install; and now my sound card works as it should! :slight_smile:

Thanks once again for your help. I doubt I would have ever figured out the problem.

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Happy we got you sorted:)