How do I get SB X-FI sound card working on Fedora 12

[John Nissley]

On Mon, 2010-01-04 at 14:47 -0600, John Nissley wrote:
>  I am running Fedora 12 and am up to date on the updates.  I have a Sound
>  Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio sound card and can not seem to get it to work
>  and from reading the mailing lists I could find the 6.31 kernel should
>  have support for this card built in.
>
>  uname information
>  2.6.31.9-174.fc12.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Dec 21 05:33:33 UTC 2009 x86_64
>  x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
>  lspci pertinent infomation
>  04:00.0 Audio device: Creative Labs [SB X-Fi Xtreme Audio] CA0110-IBG
>
>  The mixer GUI shows HD-Audio Generic.
>

According to the alsa matrix its supposed to be included in alsa
1.0.21,.
... Though, as I far as I remember, this is still initial support.

What's the output of $ /sbin/lsmod | grep snd_?

- Gilboa

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Output as follows:
bash-4.0$ lsmod | grep snd_*
snd_hda_codec_ca0110     8816  1
snd_hda_intel          29024  2
snd_hda_codec          79536  2 snd_hda_codec_ca0110,snd_hda_intel
snd_hwdep               9384  1 snd_hda_codec
snd_seq                55440  0
snd_seq_device          7860  1 snd_seq
snd_pcm                79400  3 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec
snd_timer              22128  2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd                    64968  11 snd_hda_codec_ca0110,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore               7328  1 snd
snd_page_alloc         10000  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm