Hi guys,

I have a Creative X-fi Fatal1ty edition card that goes along with an external front panel (I/O) module, mounted in the 5.25" bay. So I see there is no support for the front panel in the ALSA X-fi driver, and I'm wondering how hard would it be to add it? Is it at all feasible?

I'm hazy on the following stuff: - Does one need to reverse-engineer how the sound card communicates with the front panel, or there are datasheets about that available? - Correct me if I'm wrong, but AFAIK, the emu10k1 driver works fine with SB Live! or Audigy-based front-panels, so why not borrow some code from there and hack it into the ctxfi?

I'm ready to try out some hacking with this and get my hands dirty with code if required.

On a related note, there should be some official statement in the wiki saying that the front panel is not supported, as I did a lot of googling, checking various ubuntu/fedora forum posts that hinted the lack of support, and I'm still puzzled... :s

Best Regards, Veselin Georgiev