nidujay wrote:

I've got a Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium PCIe sound card which I purchased for the following 2 reasons:

1. It supports sound fonts

Not in Linux.

2. I require an SPDIF optical input

Apparently not supported in Linux.

The driver was written by Creative, and they obviously don't bother to extend it to support all hardware features.

Any idea what I can do?

Don't buy Creative.

Regards, Clemens

nidujay nidujay@gmail.com writes:

I've got a Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium PCIe sound card which I purchased for the following 2 reasons:

1. It supports sound fonts
2. I require an SPDIF optical input

My OS is UbuntuStudio 10.04 which I believe uses alsa version 1.0.22.

Unfortunately, I haven't been able to get either of the above working (Ok I haven't investigated (2) very deeply yet).

The SPDIF input actually works. The problem is that it isn't possible to do capture with that mixer control muted, becuase muting the control also turns off capture. See my post about a month ago for more information about this issue. For some applications this bug may not matter much, but it makes the X-Fi Titanium unusable for real-time audio processing applications.

Thor