I cant remember what the offical way to play with mixer settings in ubuntu is (because ubuntu uses pulseaudio) but if I recall correctly lauching with sudo alsamixer shold make any changes you made to alsamixer stick.However, I am having an extremely hard time trying to get it to work in Ubuntu 12.04.Actually, I started with Ubuntu 10.10, and liked that version much better than the current versions.Since 10.10 was no longer supported, I had to move on to a newer version, and thinking it would be best to I had the most recent version, which is 13.04, I downloaded and installed that version, not realizing that support on it would be very short term.
I had trouble at first trying to get my sound card to work, and I believe the commands that made it work were make and make install on the command line of the Terminal Window (from the README file in the unzipped files in the driver download, which is XFiDrvLinuxPublicUS1.00.tar.gz). I copied the sound driver zipped file to the devsnd directory, which is the directory where it worked before. But I tried a method of installation I got from a website, and never could get it to work. I then tried the simple apt-get-install method, and could not get PHP to work. It seemed to me that my 12.04 installation was too messed up from the initial load of the LAMP installation that I would not be able to undo the damage, so I decided to re-install 12.04 again, which I did. Before installing the sound card driver, I checked to be sure 12.04 recognized my card. On the Terminal command line, I input alsamixer, and got the display of that program. I noticed that the first vertical bar (Master) and the last vertical bar (Digital) had 46 46 underneath it, where all of the other bars had 100 100 beneath them. Also, the first and last vertical bars had only green coloring in them that went only about half-way up the bars, and all the other vertical bars had white up to about 35 of those bars, and then red coloring up to about 15 of those other bars near the top of those bars. That did not seem right to me; I think they should all show 100 100 underneath the vertical bars. Also, when I pressed F6 to select the sound card, and selected Creative X-FL, then pressed Enter, quit the program, and then went back into it, the selection went back to the default selection. Then I tried inputting lspci grep audio at the Terminal command line, and it returned 03:00.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB X-Fi; so it recognized my sound card good feedback. But I can see where they are called from the Makefile file from the unzipped driver file. Should some other programs be run first to supply these files So many questions with no answers that work. There has to be a cause and effect relationship that will make this work, but I have been unable to find what works. Then when I log off or shut down, and then reboot back into Ubuntu, the sound driver files are no longer there; they are automatically deleted, and that has happened several times since I have been trying to resolve this problem for quite a while now. THAT SHOULD NOT HAPPEN UNLESS I DELETE THEM In addition, the permissions on the devsnd directories change, and I have to chmod them at the Terminal to be able to copy the sound driver over again. ![]() The bottom line is that if no one can help me resolve this soon, I will strongly be considering trying a different Linux, perhaps Red HatFedora, CentOS, or any other I choose after doing more research. If one of you have a good recommendation for a different Linux, I would appreciate your response. As a related side note, I feel quite disgusted with being forced to stop using Ubuntu 10.10 since it was more reliable, and much easier and much more user friendly than 12.04 or 13.04. Creative X-Fi For Ubuntu Windows 7 Was AWindows XP, which in my experience, has been the most user friendly version of Windows, whereas I feel Windows 7 was a poor choice on Microsofts part, and was, in my opinion, not near as user friendly as XP. It wouldnt be so bad to move to more recent versions, but the Ubuntu developers have tried to mimic Windows 7, which I feel was a very unfortunate decision for Ubuntu users. Any competent and reliable help on this problem will be greatly appreciated. ![]() Do not install this driver on a system used to perform critical tasks.
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