I am having this problem in Kubuntu. Whenever I play any audio, the sound is fuzzy, echoing, and distorted. I have looked up guides in the official Ubuntu Documentation, but they are for cards with no audio at all... further research reveals that others besides me have difficulty with this card, the Creative! Labs Sound Blaster X-fi SB0460.
I googled deeper into the internets and found a driver pack built by Creative!, which I downloaded, but when I tried to compile it it complained that it could not find my kernel source's version.h - implying that it would probably not work with my kernel, and it is old software that would be nearly impossible to compile with modern software configuration.
What confuses me is that the problem exists with Kubuntu 64 bit, but not the 32 bit version.
I also tried older and newer kernels but they did not work. Does anyone have any info they can use to point me in the right direction? Anything will help, as I am at a dead end.
Thanks!
lsmod (Kubuntu 32 Bit):
Module Size Used by
pci_stub 12550 1
vboxpci 22896 0
vboxnetadp 25636 0
vboxnetflt 27261 0
vboxdrv 285137 3 vboxnetadp,vboxnetflt,vboxpci
parport_pc 27504 0
ppdev 12817 0
rfcomm 37420 0
bnep 17669 2
bluetooth 202069 10 bnep,rfcomm
binfmt_misc 17260 1
dm_crypt 22321 0
kvm_intel 126842 0
kvm 376505 1 kvm_intel
snd_ctxfi 87112 0
dcdbas 14021 0
snd_pcm 80890 1 snd_ctxfi
microcode 18286 0
joydev 17097 0
snd_page_alloc 14230 2 snd_ctxfi,snd_pcm
snd_seq_midi 13132 0
snd_seq_midi_event 14475 1 snd_seq_midi
snd_rawmidi 25114 1 snd_seq_midi
nvidia 10287297 32
psmouse 81038 0
snd_seq 51280 2 snd_seq_midi_event,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_device 14137 3 snd_seq,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_midi
snd_timer 24411 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd 56485 6 snd_ctxfi,snd_timer,snd_pcm,snd_seq,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device
serio_raw 13031 0
mac_hid 13037 0
soundcore 12600 1 snd
i2c_nforce2 12876 0
lp 13299 0
parport 40753 3 lp,ppdev,parport_pc
pata_acpi 12886 0
hid_generic 12484 0
usbhid 41805 0
hid 82666 2 hid_generic,usbhid
firewire_ohci 35292 0
firewire_core 61718 1 firewire_ohci
crc_itu_t 12627 1 firewire_core
pata_amd 13761 0
forcedeth 61777 0
sata_nv 23004 3
lsmod (Kubuntu 64 bit):
Module Size Used by
parport_pc 28152 0
ppdev 17073 0
pci_stub 12622 1
vboxpci 23194 0
vboxnetadp 25670 0
vboxnetflt 23479 0
vboxdrv 320372 3 vboxnetadp,vboxnetflt,vboxpci
bnep 18036 2
rfcomm 42641 0
bluetooth 228619 10 bnep,rfcomm
kvm_intel 132891 0
kvm 443165 1 kvm_intel
joydev 17377 0
dcdbas 14397 0
snd_ctxfi 107768 2
snd_pcm 97451 1 snd_ctxfi
microcode 22881 0
snd_page_alloc 18710 2 snd_ctxfi,snd_pcm
snd_seq_midi 13324 0
snd_seq_midi_event 14899 1 snd_seq_midi
snd_rawmidi 30180 1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq 61554 2 snd_seq_midi_event,snd_seq_midi
nvidia 11309139 40
snd_seq_device 14497 3 snd_seq,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_midi
snd_timer 29425 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd 68876 10 snd_ctxfi,snd_timer,snd_pcm,snd_seq,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device
soundcore 12680 1 snd
psmouse 95870 0
serio_raw 13215 0
mac_hid 13205 0
i2c_nforce2 13020 0
lp 17759 0
parport 46345 3 lp,ppdev,parport_pc
vesafb 13828 1
pata_acpi 13038 0
hid_generic 12540 0
usbhid 47074 0
hid 101002 2 hid_generic,usbhid
forcedeth 66977 0
firewire_ohci 40103 0
firewire_core 64508 1 firewire_ohci
crc_itu_t 12707 1 firewire_core
pata_amd 14129 0
sata_nv 31812 5
cat /proc/asound/cards (64 bit):
$ cat /proc/asound/cards
0 [XFi ]: SB-XFi - Creative X-Fi
Creative X-Fi 20K1 Unknown
cat /proc/asound/card0/codec#0 (64 bit):
$ cat /proc/asound/card0/codec#0
cat: /proc/asound/card0/codec#0: No such file or directory
cat /proc/asound/cardsandcat /proc/asound/card0/codec#0. – Danatela Jul 23 '13 at 05:00