Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi driver source code released
This should be a welcome surprise. Creative has released the source code for its Sound Blaster X-Fi and X-Fi Titanium Series Linux 32bit/64 bit drivers. Supported features are PCM playback, recording and mixer functions for ALSA
This download is intended for the following audio devices only:
- Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty® Champion Series
- Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Professional Series
- Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Professional Audio
- Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium
- Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Elite Pro
- Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Platinum
- Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatal1ty
- Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer
- Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeMusic
You can download it from this Creative forum announcement. From the looks of it, someone has already successfully used the compiled kernel module in Ubuntu 8.10.