Creative SB X-Fi - centre/subwoofer not working

[Raptor3777]

Hi guys.

I'm a complete linux newbie at the moment. I've been hunting for solutions to my soundcard troubles, but so far nothing seems to have resolved it.

In a nutshell, I have a 5.1 speaker set up, but the centre and subwoofer speakers are not producing any sound under linux.

My soundcard is a Creative SB X-Fi XtremeGamer.

I attempted to install the official creative driver, but received this error message:

[root@THEBEAST XFiDrv_Linux_Public_US_1.00]# make
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.33.6-147.2.4.fc13.x86_64/build M=/home/Daniel/Desktop/XFiDrv_Linux_Public_US_1.00
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.33.6-147.2.4.fc13.x86_64'
LD /home/Daniel/Desktop/XFiDrv_Linux_Public_US_1.00/built-in.o
CC [M] /home/Daniel/Desktop/XFiDrv_Linux_Public_US_1.00/xfi.o
/home/Daniel/Desktop/XFiDrv_Linux_Public_US_1.00/xfi.c:14:26: error: sound/driver.h: No such file or directory
/home/Daniel/Desktop/XFiDrv_Linux_Public_US_1.00/xfi.c: In function ‘ct_card_probe’:
/home/Daniel/Desktop/XFiDrv_Linux_Public_US_1.00/xfi.c:55: error: implicit declaration of function ‘snd_card_new’
/home/Daniel/Desktop/XFiDrv_Linux_Public_US_1.00/xfi.c:55: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast
make[2]: *** [/home/Daniel/Desktop/XFiDrv_Linux_Public_US_1.00/xfi.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [_module_/home/Daniel/Desktop/XFiDrv_Linux_Public_US_1.00] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.33.6-147.2.4.fc13.x86_64'
make: *** [all] Error 2
[root@THEBEAST XFiDrv_Linux_Public_US_1.00]# make install
Copy module files...
cp: cannot stat `ctxfi.ko': No such file or directory
make: *** [install] Error 1

Any help would be most appreciated!

I do apologise if this issue has been previously covered - I did a number of searches on the forum prior to posting, but didn't find anything.

[10sdassarma]

please post result of:

cd /home/Daniel/Desktop/XFiDrv_Linux_Public_US_1.00 && find . | grep sound/driver.h

[Raptor3777]

Thanks for the reply.

That command just takes me into the directory on the desktop where all the driver data is located. I suspect I have put it in wrong?

[10sdassarma]

nope, the find command isn't showing a sound/driver.h in the dir. could you post

locate sound/driver.h

thanks for your quick re:

[Raptor3777]

Comes up with no results.

[10sdassarma]

OK, try the 'emu20k1' driver in alsa and take a look @ http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=234803

[Raptor3777]

Alright, I'll look into it. Thanks heaps for your help!