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Offline tcamp17

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Sound Blaster X-Fi Extreme Audio Card
« on: April 30, 2010, 08:34:07 AM »
Can't get any sound from card! shows up in hardware, lists the driver as snd-hda-intel Is this the correct driver? Is anyone else having the same problem in PCLinuxOS 2010---  >:(
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Offline sammy2fish

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Re: Sound Blaster X-Fi Extreme Audio Card
« Reply #1 on: April 30, 2010, 12:33:15 PM »
Yes, on my desktop computer I have the same soundcard.  The sound module, ALSA does not support it... :'(
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Offline Was_Just19

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Re: Sound Blaster X-Fi Extreme Audio Card
« Reply #2 on: April 30, 2010, 01:17:17 PM »
Yes there are several threads in the forum about this card I believe.
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Re: Sound Blaster X-Fi Extreme Audio Card
« Reply #3 on: April 30, 2010, 02:13:48 PM »
I've got a X-Fi Xtreme Audio as well and sound works just fine. This card actually isn't a real X-Fi but a relabeled Audigy SE I believe. The correct driver would be the snd-ca0106. Maybe try

modprobe snd-ca0106

and see if that works for you?
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Re: Sound Blaster X-Fi Extreme Audio Card
« Reply #4 on: April 30, 2010, 07:58:39 PM »
Thanks I will give it a shot!!! :)
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Re: Sound Blaster X-Fi Extreme Audio Card
« Reply #5 on: May 16, 2010, 02:13:53 PM »
Hi.
Did you get sound?
I have the same card but I can't get it worked.
I tried snd_ctxfi and snd-ca0106 driver - no results.
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Re: Sound Blaster X-Fi Extreme Audio Card
« Reply #6 on: May 18, 2010, 12:23:42 PM »
I had the same problem.
I solved it by disabling the built in sound card in bios.
Most modern MB has built in sound.

After that  I have no problem  with my  SB X-fi sound card.

Seems like the system got confused by choosing from two sound cards.

Frank
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Re: Sound Blaster X-Fi Extreme Audio Card
« Reply #7 on: May 18, 2010, 04:14:27 PM »
Quote from: -kleve on May 18, 2010, 12:23:42 PM
I had the same problem.
I solved it by disabling the built in sound card in bios.
Most modern MB has built in sound.

After that  I have no problem  with my  SB X-fi sound card.

Seems like the system got confused by choosing from two sound cards.

Frank


Even when I disable the built-in sound sound card, my XFi Xtreme Audio doesn't even give me a beep.  With it disabled in the bios, PCLinuxOS still sees it...
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Re: Sound Blaster X-Fi Extreme Audio Card
« Reply #8 on: May 21, 2010, 08:15:55 AM »
In "Configure your Computer " -> Hardware-> sound -> :
My driver is :  CA106(SND_CA0106[ALSA])

It works for me.   ;)

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Re: Sound Blaster X-Fi Extreme Audio Card
« Reply #9 on: May 22, 2010, 07:25:12 AM »
Quote from: -kleve on May 21, 2010, 08:15:55 AM
In "Configure your Computer " -> Hardware-> sound -> :
My driver is :  CA106(SND_CA0106[ALSA])

It works for me.   ;)



Will give it a try....
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Re: Sound Blaster X-Fi Extreme Audio Card
« Reply #10 on: May 23, 2010, 11:46:35 PM »
Quote from: sammy2fish on May 22, 2010, 07:25:12 AM
Quote from: -kleve on May 21, 2010, 08:15:55 AM
In "Configure your Computer " -> Hardware-> sound -> :
My driver is :  CA106(SND_CA0106[ALSA])

It works for me.   ;)



Will give it a try....

Well, I tried it.  It don't work for me... :'(
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Offline gseaman

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Re: Sound Blaster X-Fi Extreme Audio Card
« Reply #11 on: May 24, 2010, 01:44:22 AM »
Did you try to blacklist the driver for the onboard sound?

Galen
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Re: Sound Blaster X-Fi Extreme Audio Card
« Reply #12 on: May 24, 2010, 12:39:43 PM »
Quote from: gseaman on May 24, 2010, 01:44:22 AM
Did you try to blacklist the driver for the onboard sound?

Galen

No...I have never have to do anything like that before.  I heard of people doing it.

Where would a person go to blacklist the on-board driver?
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Re: Sound Blaster X-Fi Extreme Audio Card
« Reply #13 on: May 24, 2010, 07:21:54 PM »
Quote from: sammy2fish on May 24, 2010, 12:39:43 PM
Quote from: gseaman on May 24, 2010, 01:44:22 AM
Did you try to blacklist the driver for the onboard sound?

Galen

No...I have never have to do anything like that before.  I heard of people doing it.

Where would a person go to blacklist the on-board driver?

The only time I've done it is with direction from someone else. ;) But if you know which module may be causing a conflict, (I am not sure that is the problem, but it is worth a try), you can put the name of the module (driver) into '/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist'. You, of course, have to be logged in as root to edit this file. You should also be able to just 'rmmod modulename' to do the same thing after booting. Then, you will probably still have to modprobe the correct driver module.

Galen
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