A recent driver contributor has made the blobs available here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/SoundBlasterOfficial/comments/9mm5ad/sound_blaster_r3dr3dizzxrae5_linux_driver/
No idea on the licensing situation.
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I just noticed that the source code also calls for a "ctefx-r3di.bin"
that's needed for a "Recon3Di" (apparently a Dell proprietary variant?)
and the -sbz file was renamed "ctefx-desktop.bin" in 4.20.
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I'm not 100% sure what this firmware blob is actually used for, as the
card is mostly functional without it and I'm not confident the broken
bits aren't due to an incomplete driver, but it requests it for
CA0132-based PCIe addin cards (Sound Blaster Recon3D, Z series, X AE-5).
We're talking about the live/install media... throwing the image on a
USB drive and booting it, for trialling or installing the OS.
I have not tried the 16.04 (not .1) media. However, I wouldn't expect
different results.
...How would I install an alternate kernel on the live image?
In the instal
Public bug reported:
The text console flickers, and ignores most keyboard input.
This can be worked around by adding nomodeset to the kernel command
line, which will make X fall back on the VESA driver, with all the
limitations inherent to that.
The resulting installed system will have the same
That canned response doesn't apply, as the problem is not in the kernel
itself, but in the configuration Ubuntu is using to compile the kernel.
The fix is simple: in the kernel config, change
CONFIG_X86_POWERNOW_K8=y
and
CONFIG_X86_ACPI_CPUFREQ=y
to
CONFIG_X86_POWERNOW_K8=m
and
CONFIG_X86_A
The laptop in question now runs Windows 8 and the light STILL isn't
consistent with the sound chip's actual state. I'm chalking this one up
to a hardware flaw that's not worth working around. Feel free to close.
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Ran it from USB, put it to sleep and brought it back, it appeared to
recover no problem.
I'm still keeping the machine on Windows 8 due to wireless problems
unfortunately.
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