Creative X-Fi card not found after installing recommended kernel 2.6.27-11
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Ubuntu |
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Bug Description
I installed the recommended kernel version above, which Ubuntu detected for me in its update check, and upgraded. Also of note was several PulseAudio updates.
However, I then proceeded to install the Nvidia 180.18 drivers over my 177.x ones, which required a system reboot. Upon rebooting, I noticed my sound had gone. I did some quick searching around and some people had reporting something similar with the latest kernel. I checked in system->hardware drivers, and my Creative X-Fi 1.18 drivers which I had installed using ./configure, make, make install were no longer listed
I rebooted again, this time, when the 10-second countdown before actually initialising linux, I pressed escape and chose to boot the 2.6.27-9 kernel I was previously using. Low and behold, my sound card was working again, and the drivers were listed in the hardware drivers.
When I was in the -11 kernel, I only ran this command:
steve@ubuntu:~$ aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
steve@ubuntu:~$
I forgot to run uname -a
however, now I ran:
now:
steve@ubuntu:~$ aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: XFi [Creative X-Fi], device 0: X-Fi 20k1 [WaveOut/WaveIn]
Subdevices: 7/8
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
Subdevice #1: subdevice #1
Subdevice #2: subdevice #2
Subdevice #3: subdevice #3
Subdevice #4: subdevice #4
Subdevice #5: subdevice #5
Subdevice #6: subdevice #6
Subdevice #7: subdevice #7
steve@ubuntu:~$ uname -a
Linux ubuntu 2.6.27-9-generic #1 SMP Thu Nov 20 22:15:32 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Ubuntu 8.10 64bit,
AMD x-2 3800 socket939, 2GB DDR RAM, 8800GT.
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Same here... After update to new kernel (2.6.27- 11-generic) , by x-fi driver no longer works. It also doesn't show up in the "hardware drivers" anymore. Haven't tried booting the old kernel but I'm sure it will work - updating to the new kernel was basically the only thing I did of any significance before I lost the sound. "aplya -l" (on 2.6.27-11-generic) gives me "aplay: device_list:215: no soundcards found..."... Since I just heard of the command from the previous post, I'm not sure what it's supposed to give me but I'm assuming not that I have no sound card...