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ScarEye
August 25th, 2008, 03:44 AM
Hey guys,

I have a machine with a Nvidia card with a SB X-Fi card. Now this is what I have done. If I install a fresh copy of Ubuntu 8.04 and then following these steps http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=4823915&postcount=675
I have sound working with no problem. But as soon as I install my Nvidia drivers either using envy-ng or manually running the Nvidia (NVIDIA-Linux-x86-173.14.12-pkg1.run) script it breaks my sound.

I then did another fresh install this time I installed the video driver first which worked perfectly and then installed the sound drivers using the instructions above and the sound doesn't work.

Any idea's on what could be the problem.

user@p390:/etc$ lsmod |grep ctalsa
ctalsa 493270 1
snd_pcm 80004 2 ctalsa,snd_pcm_oss
snd 55268 8 ctalsa,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_seq_o ss,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
soundcore 9056 4 ctalsa,ctsfman,emupia,snd
ctossrv 137776 7 ctalsa,haxfi,cthwiut,ctexfifx,ct20xut,ctsfman,emup ia


It seems as if sound drivers are loading. But I am stuck here. Any suggestions or help is appreciated.


Thanks
ScarEye

Idealist_
September 7th, 2008, 07:01 AM
I have the exact same problem as you, only with ubuntu as opposed to kubuntu. I installed the X-Fi using the alsa method, everything worked like a charm. However upon installing the nvidia graphics driver, the X-Fi can no longer be found? :confused:

Not sure why this is happening, but I can't find a workaround at all. This is what I get in the system log:

ctalsa: no version for "bytes_to_order" found: kernel tainted.

and the sound preferences says, "could not open audio device for playback". Hardware Drivers is also empty, where I don't believe it was before. :(

Shazaam
September 7th, 2008, 08:22 AM
Creative problem (old), not Nvidia. The Creative cards try to share IRQ's with the video card slot.
Here are some links.....
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=870001&highlight=Creative
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=903451&highlight=Creative
http://forums.creative.com/creativelabs/board?board.id=soundblaster
http://forums.creative.com/creativelabs/search?board_id=soundblaster&submitted=true&q=linux

Idealist_
September 8th, 2008, 06:57 AM
Creative problem (old), not Nvidia. The Creative cards try to share IRQ's with the video card slot.
Here are some links.....
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=870001&highlight=Creative
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=903451&highlight=Creative
http://forums.creative.com/creativelabs/board?board.id=soundblaster
http://forums.creative.com/creativelabs/search?board_id=soundblaster&submitted=true&q=linux


Wait, I should mention that I'm fairly new to linux, but, "new" includes compiling the new kernel to get the X-Fi working. You say the reason they don't work together is because the X-Fi driver is trying to use the same IRQ as the graphics card, but I don't know how to change the IRQ ctalsa is trying to use, or if there are even any that are free. Do you know how to change the IRQ?

Shazaam
September 8th, 2008, 07:55 AM
Not off hand I don't. Keep searching, I am sure you are not the only ones with X-Fi/linux problems.