Sound Blaster (D) X-Fi™ XtremeMusic Not Recognised

[Alex Marz]

Recently purchased a Dell XPS 710 with a Sound Blaster (D) X-Fi™ XtremeMusic sound card factory installed. After installation no sound card is detected.

/proc/asound/cards does not seem to show any sound card entry other then a USB device presumeably my Logitech quickcam Fusion.

[Alex Marz (wheatie)]

Ahh yes, I'm also using Feisty and the default kernel currently included.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Could you please add the output requested at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DebuggingSoundProblems as attachments? Thanks in advance.

[Toby Smithe (tsmithe)]

It's ok; that won't be necessary :)

Unfortunately, it is not ok, however, as this sound card is totally unsupported: Creative have released no details of the cards workings, nor a driver, be it closed or open source, though they claim to be in the process of developing one not unlike the nVidia driver. Sorry, Alex.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Beginning with the Hardy Heron 8.04 development cycle, all open Ubuntu kernel bugs need to be reported against the "linux" kernel package. We are automatically migrating this bug to the new "linux" package. However, development has already began for the upcoming Intrepid Ibex 8.10 release. It would be helpful if you could test the upcoming release and verify if this is still an issue - http://www.ubuntu.com/testing . If the issue still exists, please update this report by changing the Status of the "linux" task from "Incomplete" to "New". We appreciate your patience and understanding as we make this transition. Thanks!