Well, ive been twiddling my thumbs for months waiting for someone, somewhere to answer my prayers and create a working linux x-fi driver. Creative did release an ‘official’ beta driver last year but ive never had any luck with it like a large number of other people.

However it would appear that our prayers have been answered, at least in part. As with the latest release of OSS there is a basic x-fi driver, and whats more, it works! Its not amazing, currently only stereo sound is available but it works, and works ok therefore im happy.

If your interested in getting it running on gentoo then take a look at the official OSS forums as there is an overlay available that has working ebuilds in it.

Ive also just finished putting together a patched ebuild that adds support for OSS v4 to gstreamer so that sound works inside gnome, take a look on the downloads page for details (many thanks to seawright on the OSS forums for the patch).