Confirmed on 12.04. Remote does not work. Sound works.
** Changed in: alsa-driver (Ubuntu)
Status: Expired => Confirmed
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Title:
CREATIVE X-Fi Surround 5.1 USB no remote control
Status in “alsa-driver” package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Bug description:
edit: the sound and soft. volume control works on 9.10
hw not working: CREATIVE X-Fi Surround 5.1 USB
driver for device: snd_usb_audio
what should work:
1clear sound,
2 infrared remote control and hardware volume control button,
3 no volume control
4. device works with full speed, which is according specification USB 1.0
speed, it should be high speed USB 2.0.
what's the problem:
1sound has pops and cracks few times per second.
also reported here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=6830864&postcount=8
2 remote control in this sound card is not implemented in driver, so no HID
device is found, I tried it with lirc and driver usbaudio, but it didn't work.
3. no mixer
4. USB 1.0 speed prevents special features like surround and crystalizer to
work
lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 9.04
Release: 9.04
uname -r
2.6.28-13-generic
cat /proc/asound/version
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.20.
Compiled on Jul 9 2009 for kernel 2.6.28-13-generic (SMP).
cat /proc/asound/cards
0 [Intel ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel
HDA Intel at 0xd0440000 irq 22
1 [S51 ]: USB-Audio - SB X-Fi Surround 5.1
Creative Technology SB X-Fi Surround 5.1 at
usb-0000:00:1d.2-1, full speed
some info I found: http://mndar.phpnet.us/usbxfi/
this was built from latest unstable source(tried also stable).
x-fi provided some Open source drivers, but only for PCI x-fi cards.
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