Comments on: Getting Creative X-Fi to work in Ubuntu Hardy Heron (8) http://jamestombs.co.uk/2008-05-05/getting-creative-x-fi-to-work-in-ubuntu-hardy-heron-8/608 Development blog from James Tombs about PHP, XHTML + CSS and Drupal Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:36:24 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: admin http://jamestombs.co.uk/2008-05-05/getting-creative-x-fi-to-work-in-ubuntu-hardy-heron-8/608/comment-page-1#comment-457 admin Thu, 16 Oct 2008 16:27:42 +0000 http://jamestombs.co.uk/?p=608#comment-457 Try posting on Ubuntu forums, you will get better responses. By the looks of it OSS wasn't uninstalled from last time. Could try running: dpkg --remove oss-linux-4.0-1016_i386.deb Assuming that is the one you installed originally. If that doesn't work you could try removing the original OSS using these instructions http://www.4front-tech.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2054 Try posting on Ubuntu forums, you will get better responses.

By the looks of it OSS wasn’t uninstalled from last time.

Could try running:

dpkg –remove oss-linux-4.0-1016_i386.deb

Assuming that is the one you installed originally.

If that doesn’t work you could try removing the original OSS using these instructions http://www.4front-tech.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2054

]]> By: Gary Levine http://jamestombs.co.uk/2008-05-05/getting-creative-x-fi-to-work-in-ubuntu-hardy-heron-8/608/comment-page-1#comment-454 Gary Levine Thu, 16 Oct 2008 15:32:09 +0000 http://jamestombs.co.uk/?p=608#comment-454 Hi, Gary again. Sound was working fine, but sometime over the last couple of days, it disappeared. I installed OpenOffice 3, and also played around with tvtime (to no avail - Hardy doesn't recognize my tuner card). So I'm not sure what killed the sound. But I figured I'd just re-install from the beginning according to your instructions. Step 0 - get necessary packages - ok. Step 1-2 - Remove ALSA - ok. Step 3-6, install using deb file - failed. Here is what the terminal session looked like: $sudo dpkg -i oss-linux-4.0-1016_i386.deb sh: Can't open /usr/lib/oss/scripts/restore_drv.sh dpkg: warning – old pre-removal script returned error exit status 2 dpkg – trying script from the new package instead ... sh: Can't open /usr/lib/oss/scripts/restore_drv.sh dpkg: error processing oss-linux-4.0-1016_i386.deb (--install): subprocess new pre-removal script returned error exit status 2 cd: 3: can't cd to /usr/lib/oss/build sh: Can't open install.sh cat: /usr/lib/oss/version.dat: No such file or directory /usr/lib/oss/etc/devices.list: No such file or directory Errors were encountered while processing: oss-linux-4.0-1016_i386.deb $ sudo soundon cat: usr/lib/oss/version.dat: No such file or directory /usr/lib/oss/etc/devices.lst: No such file or directory No /usr/lib/oss/etc/installed_drivers – cannot continue Any help would be greatly appreciated! Gary Hi, Gary again. Sound was working fine, but sometime over the last couple of days, it disappeared. I installed OpenOffice 3, and also played around with tvtime (to no avail – Hardy doesn’t recognize my tuner card). So I’m not sure what killed the sound. But I figured I’d just re-install from the beginning according to your instructions. Step 0 – get necessary packages – ok. Step 1-2 – Remove ALSA – ok. Step 3-6, install using deb file – failed. Here is what the terminal session looked like:

$sudo dpkg -i oss-linux-4.0-1016_i386.deb
sh: Can’t open /usr/lib/oss/scripts/restore_drv.sh
dpkg: warning – old pre-removal script returned error exit status 2
dpkg – trying script from the new package instead …
sh: Can’t open /usr/lib/oss/scripts/restore_drv.sh
dpkg: error processing oss-linux-4.0-1016_i386.deb (–install):
subprocess new pre-removal script returned error exit status 2
cd: 3: can’t cd to /usr/lib/oss/build
sh: Can’t open install.sh
cat: /usr/lib/oss/version.dat: No such file or directory
/usr/lib/oss/etc/devices.list: No such file or directory
Errors were encountered while processing:
oss-linux-4.0-1016_i386.deb
$ sudo soundon
cat: usr/lib/oss/version.dat: No such file or directory
/usr/lib/oss/etc/devices.lst: No such file or directory
No /usr/lib/oss/etc/installed_drivers – cannot continue

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Gary

]]> By: Gary Levine http://jamestombs.co.uk/2008-05-05/getting-creative-x-fi-to-work-in-ubuntu-hardy-heron-8/608/comment-page-1#comment-417 Gary Levine Mon, 13 Oct 2008 14:44:39 +0000 http://jamestombs.co.uk/?p=608#comment-417 Ok, I found my error. Used the wrong apostrophe character, "'" instead of "`". All good now. Thanks! Gary Ok, I found my error. Used the wrong apostrophe character, “‘” instead of “`”. All good now. Thanks!

Gary

]]> By: Gary Levine http://jamestombs.co.uk/2008-05-05/getting-creative-x-fi-to-work-in-ubuntu-hardy-heron-8/608/comment-page-1#comment-416 Gary Levine Mon, 13 Oct 2008 14:34:57 +0000 http://jamestombs.co.uk/?p=608#comment-416 Hi, I'm in the same boat with the Creative SB X-Fi. I'm new to Ubuntu, but did work in a Unix shop many, many years ago. So 'some' of this is coming back to me. However, having trouble with your step 0 - Get Necessary packages. Do I replace 'uname -r' in your shell command with my own username? I've tried several variations, but I keep getting errors similar to this: "Couldn't find package linux-headers-uname -r". I'm sure I must be doing something stupid. Any help / clarification on the correct syntax would be greatly appreciated! Gary Hi,

I’m in the same boat with the Creative SB X-Fi. I’m new to Ubuntu, but did work in a Unix shop many, many years ago. So ’some’ of this is coming back to me. However, having trouble with your step 0 – Get Necessary packages. Do I replace ‘uname -r’ in your shell command with my own username? I’ve tried several variations, but I keep getting errors similar to this: “Couldn’t find package linux-headers-uname -r”. I’m sure I must be doing something stupid. Any help / clarification on the correct syntax would be greatly appreciated!

Gary

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