X-FI Music with 11.3 64-bit

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Hi everybody,

I try to get to work my X-FI Extreme Music sound card with Opensuse 11.3 64-bit version.
The card is not recognized in Yast. It just returns an error over wrong module parameters.
Alsaconf even not recognizes the sound card.
Than I tried with live CD’s: The X-FI works fine with 32-bit live CD’s but not with 64-bit ones.
Is there something missing with the 64-bit version of Opensuse 11.3?
Does anyone know if it would be of use to install additional packages and witch ones?
Shall I configure the sound card in a different way?

I am grateful for any help!

chrisei

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I have had good luck with X-Fi Sound Blaster cards of late. Only a model SB1040EF, a PCIe card which was named X-Fi Xtreme Audio did not work with openSUSE 11.3 using 64 bit. I saw a lot of people on the net saying this card was not a real X-Fi card anyway. In Windows it says it is Intel HD Audio, even as no Intel chips are on it. Can’t say I tried it using 32 bit. I have two other X-Fi sound cards which have worked just fine using 64 bit. In general, you would think if it was OK in 32 bit, it might be OK using 64 bit, but perhaps not.

Thank You,

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Thanks for the answer.
Yast says its a X-Fi Platinunm but can not configure it.
Does not anyone have the same problem?

chrisei

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Most of us do NOT have an X-Fi. Reference providing help, since there are many different types of sound cards I typically ask for the information recommended to be provided in the multimedia stickie of our forum before I will offer suggestions: Welcome to multimedia sub-area

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Yes I have the same problem with an X-Fi Titanium. By default Opensuse does not load the kernel module.

This is what solved it for me,

Yast > Sound > add > creative labs > X-Fi

Click Next.

After the setup has completed, logout, then log back in.

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Thanks for the hint.
But this don’t gets me any further.
Yast just comes up with the “kernel-module could not be loaded” message. There would be probably something wrong with the Module-, IO- and/or IRQ-parameters.
But even when I try to set them (using the parameters from Windows) it don’t works.
In the meantime I activated the onboard sound again and use that for Linux.

CH

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chrisei, you are going to need to post more information about your specific X-Fi sound card starting with the model number and what driver if any is being loaded automatically for you? When you change the driver manually and it does not load, the card you have is simply not being recognized as the driver you have selected. Further and in general, changing the card driver for PCI & PCIe devices hardly ever works since they are PNP devices and some sort of mistake on its identification would need to be going on. Now I did not say never, but almost never would be correct.

Thank You,

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I have the XtremeGamer (the PCI version) and it has always worked in openSuSE since 11.1 (x64). In fact, it worked before the driver support for the chipset was added to ALSA (when you had to add a driver blob from Creative or OSS/4Front). Typically, trying to configure normally-PnP cards manually is a bad idea, even in Linux (and especially since PnP support was added via the 2.4 kernels).

Is the card PCI or PCIe? (If PCIe, what slot does it occupy?)

Do you dual-boot with another operating system? If so, does it work there?

The XtremeMusic should work, as it uses the same chipset as the original XtremeGamer (it was the XtremeGamer that adopted the low-profile form-factor which still causes confusion with the XtremeAudio, which uses the same PCB, but carries a chipset derived from the Audigy SE).