Problem with Creative X-Fi Xtreme Audio PCIe

[BruinPirateAnteater]

Hey guys,

Completely new to linux. I am having real trouble getting my Creative Xtreme Audio PCIe card to work. I dont think this is solvable using the ALSA drivers are the ALSA wiki page lists the PCIe Xtreme Audio card as not working with ALSA drivers. I did run ALSAmixer from Terminal, I have made sure nothing is muted for my card, but still no sound. The card is detected by Mint (Julia 10 release) and I do have it selected to output audio through the Creative card and not the onboard card.

Creative put out some open source drivers but I am having trouble compiling them. These are the instructions that came with the drivers:

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====================================================================

  Sound Blaster X-Fi Linux 32/64-bit Driver Source Release Readme File
  September 2008

====================================================================

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



Quick install

=============
In terminal,

1) Goto source directory
2) Execute make command as root
   make
   make install

Uninstall
=========
In terminal,
1) Goto source directory
2) Execute make command as root
   make uninstall


Copyright (c) 2008 Creative Technology Ltd. All rights reserved.
====================================================================
  End of Readme File
========================================================================================================================================

So I go to the directory where I extracted the driver files and I run the make command and I get this:

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sudo make
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.35-22-generic/build M=/home/bruinpirateanteater/Downloads/XFiDrv_Linux_Public_US_1.00
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.35-22-generic'
  CC [M]  /home/bruinpirateanteater/Downloads/XFiDrv_Linux_Public_US_1.00/xfi.o
/home/bruinpirateanteater/Downloads/XFiDrv_Linux_Public_US_1.00/xfi.c:14: fatal error: sound/driver.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
make[2]: *** [/home/bruinpirateanteater/Downloads/XFiDrv_Linux_Public_US_1.00/xfi.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [_module_/home/bruinpirateanteater/Downloads/XFiDrv_Linux_Public_US_1.00] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.35-22-generic'
make: *** [all] Error 2

THen I try to do sudo make install and get:

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

Ive tried to search the forums, I have tried some of the suggestions from other threads, half the suggestions I have no clue what people are talking about, the other half I've tried with no luck. Any ideas as to what it is I am doing wrong?

Also please understand that I am a total newbee to Linux and this type of enviroment. I am a migrant from Windows and have been using that since Windows 95, so I am certainly not used to command line stuff or all the technical terms and what not.

[BruinPirateAnteater]

Anyone?

[BruinPirateAnteater]

so i guess no one has any clues...

[unexistance]

Hi,

Your best bet - http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p= ... ostcount=9

I cannot verify as I don't have Creative soundcard

Regards,

[BruinPirateAnteater]

I will try this tonight, but thank you SOOOOOOOO much.

This seems to be the first thread I've seen that directly address the Creative Drivers, my card AND my error. Thanks so much!