travproc

I just installed Mepis 7.0 on my computer this past weekend, and everything works fine except for my sound card. I downloaded the XFi drivers from creatives website but cannot seem to be able to compile them into a working install. is there anyone that has done this that can give me a step by step?

Melcar

There are several threads on this already. Short answer: Don't bother installing them. OSS4 has basic support for the card already. You could try the pre-packaged .deb that's floating around and see if it works:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=571656

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travproc

I've seen that information but for some reason it keeps telling me that build-essential is necessary and I cannot figure out how to get build-essential to install. Im an extreme noob at Linux I know my way around I just don't know where stuff needs to go or alot of commands.

travproc

I tried to use the OSS drivers that came with Mepis 7.0 and I got the message "device /dev/dsp can't be opened (No such file or directory)." Why isn't it there?

Melcar

You need OSS4. I don't know of any recent distro that has that revision installed by default. Build-essential should be available from your distro's package manager.

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travproc

I got everything working it took me a little bit but I was missing some packages and had to move some files around as well as I was finally able to get my XFi working. Thanks everyone for their help.