Creative Open-Sources Their X-Fi Driver Options

[168]

COME ON!!! THe X-Fi sounds so much better than the Audigy. I have both but I choose Windows just because it comes with the X-Fi drivers and just sounds SOOOOOO MUCH BETTER.

[Windywoo]

I would like to add my voice to those interested in X-Fi drivers. I have everything working great in my Hackintosh now (even a Radeon 4870) but I had to use onboard sound instead of my X-Fi. Not ideal

Good luck to whoever takes up the challenge.

[alexcooltranquille]

I would like to add my voice to those interested in X-Fi drivers. I have everything working great in my Hackintosh now (even a Radeon 4870) but I had to use onboard sound instead of my X-Fi. Not ideal

Good luck to whoever takes up the challenge.

Same, all work on MSI Eclispe SLI but not the PCIe SB X-FI extreme

[alexcooltranquille]

Now my X-Fi is wokring thanks to 10.5.7 and voodooHDA .
More info: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=172853

And pics: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...st&id=51621

[enb14]

yeah that's true it works, my X-Fi titanium fatal1ty PCIe works (DIGITAL OUTPUT ONLY) but wow that's a lot of advancement

[02VideoFaBI]

How did you get your x-fi cards to work? I hab a x-fi card, too and can't find any driver!?

[alexcooltranquille]

Thanks to voodoohda.

[enb14]

How did you get your x-fi cards to work? I hab a x-fi card, too and can't find any driver!?

http://forum.voodooprojects.org/index.php/topic,139.0.html

By the way now my Optical is not working but analog output works.

[TriPpeD]

We should start a post saying we can contribute by testing it on our systems. Make our voices heard!

Hear hear!!....if everyone who wants X-fi support donated €5 that would be a fair few €

[lateralusman]

http://forum.voodooprojects.org/index.php/topic,139.0.html

By the way now my Optical is not working but analog output works.

Does 5.1 analog output work?

[Gravian]

By the way now my Optical is not working but analog output works.

Does 5.1 analog output work?

I think it's just glitchyness with the Kext. Often I'll boot into OS X and have to reboot because I wont have analog sound or nothing will be detected at all, but after I restart everything will be working well.

I'm just happy to have my X-Fi working at all, but if anyone has any ideas to resolve this, or get the mic jack working, I'd be glad to try them out. The more stuff we can get working on the X-Fi the better, since it would open up Hackintoshers to what is probably the most common card on the market.

EDIT: Ok, I found out what makes the difference for me at least. Restarting the computer I'll get sound next boot, but if I start up from a completely powered down state it wont see the X-Fi for some reason. In fact, nothing comes up in the system logs about the VoodooHDA Kext from a cold boot at all. The same thing happens if I tell it to restart, but cut the power right after it restarts to simulate a shut down, so I'm somewhat inclined to believe this may be hardware specfic for me.

enb14: If you want, try booting a few times from an off state and then try restarting a few times and see if that makes any consistant difference in what you get.

[ShinichiYao]

http://forum.voodooprojects.org/index.php/topic,139.0.html

By the way now my Optical is not working but analog output works.

I disabled my onboard ALC888 and install this driver, but nothing happened.
The VoodooHDA can't find my X-fi Xtreme Audio

[Gravian]

I disabled my onboard ALC888 and install this driver, but nothing happened.
The VoodooHDA can't find my X-fi Xtreme Audio

Is it PCI-E or PCI?

Also, I found out what was causing my X-Fi to only show up on reboot. For some reason, my computer doesn't assign an IRQ to one of the PCI-E bridges on cold boot, but does on a warm boot (restart).

[enb14]

I think it's just glitchyness with the Kext. Often I'll boot into OS X and have to reboot because I wont have analog sound or nothing will be detected at all, but after I restart everything will be working well.

I'm just happy to have my X-Fi working at all, but if anyone has any ideas to resolve this, or get the mic jack working, I'd be glad to try them out. The more stuff we can get working on the X-Fi the better, since it would open up Hackintoshers to what is probably the most common card on the market.

EDIT: Ok, I found out what makes the difference for me at least. Restarting the computer I'll get sound next boot, but if I start up from a completely powered down state it wont see the X-Fi for some reason. In fact, nothing comes up in the system logs about the VoodooHDA Kext from a cold boot at all. The same thing happens if I tell it to restart, but cut the power right after it restarts to simulate a shut down, so I'm somewhat inclined to believe this may be hardware specfic for me.

enb14: If you want, try booting a few times from an off state and then try restarting a few times and see if that makes any consistant difference in what you get.

I did that the voodohda driver seems to works some times and other times doesn't

I only got 2 speakers with analog output

fortunatelly for my I bought an maya 44e PCIe (same as my X-Fi titanium fatal1ty)

so now no more needing for AppleHDA for now, maybe with snow leopard.

[The_true_power]

I can't get my pci xtreme music x-fi working !

I guess you guys have a PCIE card, but i have a PCI.

Can you help me ?

[M0rpheus]

I think that PCI-E only works, not PCI. I have a PCI Xtreme Gamer that doesn't work either. With VoodooHDA all I get in the sound panel is "digital out" that doesn't actually work. Even if I could get 2 speaker analog working (I only have a 2.1 setup) then I'd be over the moon. Anyone have any ideas?

[CUatTHEFINISH]

I think that PCI-E only works, not PCI. I have a PCI Xtreme Gamer that doesn't work either. With VoodooHDA all I get in the sound panel is "digital out" that doesn't actually work. Even if I could get 2 speaker analog working (I only have a 2.1 setup) then I'd be over the moon. Anyone have any ideas?

I have the same problem as you with a PCI X-Fi XtremeMusic card.

[loyal]

I have the same problem as you with a PCI X-Fi XtremeMusic card.

so sad pci x-fi xtremeMusic card 

[nozz93]

I have PCI X-Fi Extreme Gamer Fatal1ty Professional and paid 120€ for that thing, it must be possible to get a driver for these things if we have the source (even if it's not the OS X source). C'mon, we need drivers for these things! Onboard sucks :/