Alsa support for Creative Xfi Xmod USB card

[ebike]

Hi There all,

I have a Mythbuntu box currently running Gutsy quite happily with the above sound card (which is awesome by the way.)

I notice however that there is no driver support for this card in Hardy Heron. I would like to make the change to Hardy but am reluctant to do so without support for this card.

My current choices are:
1. Use the OSS4.0 drivers and ditch Alsa completely
(By the way has anyone done this in mythbuntu, could do with some feedback.
2. Wait for Alsa support


Any and all help appreciated as allways.

[ebike]

Thanks for all the replies folks! :rolleyes:

Actually I am marking this thread as solved, as since the latest update of the kernel "2.6.24-18-generic" the ALSA driver is again working for this card ..... :frown:bad boys for breaking Ubuntu, and taking so long to come up with a fix ......:shock:

[halfex]

I have one too, and Ubuntu Hardy with unmodified alsa and kernel configs.

It works for me, but I have a weird problem. When I try to set Mmod's PCM volume (with gnome-volume-control), it goes totally down, the channel lock breaks, and sometimes the device go to muted. I have to play with left channel's volume to make it audible and play with right to stereo. But the left volume is jump down usually, when I slide right fader up :(

Have anyone got this problem too?

[halfex]

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[ebike]

Yep, I sorta have that problem, but mainly when watching movies with VLC, LiveTV or recordings are normally fine. When I startup a movie, the PWM slide goes to nearly zero, and I can only crank it up to half in VLC. I have to use alsamixer to crank up the PWM sliders so I can get some decent volume ...

[shlag]

It works for me, but I have a weird problem. When I try to set Mmod's PCM volume (with gnome-volume-control), it goes totally down, the channel lock breaks, and sometimes the device go to muted. I have to play with left channel's volume to make it audible and play with right to stereo. But the left volume is jump down usually, when I slide right fader up :(

Have anyone got this problem too?

This is problem in gnome-volume-control.
My xfce4-mixer works well.

But i use hardware volume control with xbindkeys.

xbindkeys config (~/.xbindkeysrc):

"amixer -c 0 get PCM | grep off > /dev/null; if [ $? = 1 ]; then amixer -q -c 0 set PCM mute; else amixer -q -c 0 set PCM unmute; fi;"
m:0x10 + c:160

"pgrep amixer; if [ $? = 1 ]; then amixer -c 0 set PCM 3dB+; fi;"
m:0x10 + c:176

"pgrep amixer; if [ $? = 1 ]; then amixer -c 0 set PCM 3dB-; fi;"
m:0x10 + c:174

do not forget to add xbindkeys to autoload of your DE

[mndar]

Does the volume knob on the device work?
What about the digital out and other outputs ?

[mndar]

I bought the USB X-Fi. Its working well with ALSA using the snd-usb-audio module. Have a look here http://mndar.phpnet.us/usbxfi