Comment 56 for bug 63352

I second the motion! It is an epic failure on the part of ALSA, Canonical, Creative and the others (who all point fingers at each other as the responsible party for this situation.)

This almost turned me off Linux completely. For the 2nd time.

I never would have thought I'd need to use WINDOWS to get good sound. It's unfathomable, really.

Cheers,
~Greg

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> To: <email address hidden>
> Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 18:14:58 +0000
> Subject: [Bug 63352] Re: Creative labs X-Fi sound card unsupported
>
> I wish someone would respond to this. Look how long this has been (first
> post to last post).
>
> This is really a usability, accessibility (people can not even USE
> UBUNTU because of this!) etc. It's impairing handicap users and this is
> *MAJOR* handicap (if not a deal-breaker for people trying use Ubuntu, I
> know a use-case above proves this in multiple cases cited).
>
> I do not understand why a major Creative Soundblaster Card, the one most
> pushed on the market and by Dell, is not supported or attempted to be
> supported yet 2 years later.
>
> I really think this needs be addressed (it deserves to be escalated) and
> people need to be kept informed of the status.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Craig Huffstetler
>
> --
> Creative labs X-Fi sound card unsupported
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/63352
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> Status in The Linux Kernel: New
> Status in Ubuntu: Invalid
> Status in “linux” source package in Ubuntu: Confirmed
> Status in “linux-source-2.6.17” source package in Ubuntu: Invalid
>
> Bug description:
> New PC has this card. It's unsupported as far as i can tell.
>
> Please make it work :)
>
> 06:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs Unknown device 0005
> Subsystem: Creative Labs Unknown device 0021
> Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
> Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
> Latency: 64 (1000ns min, 1250ns max), Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
> Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11
> Region 0: I/O ports at ec00 [size=32]
> Region 1: Memory at fbe00000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2M]
> Region 3: Memory at f4000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64M]
> Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
> Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
> Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
> Capabilities: [50] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit+ Queue=0/0 Enable-
> Address: 0000000000000000 Data: 0000