[ubuntu-uk] Creative Drivers

[James Milligan]

Before you all start hounding me, yes, I do understand that Creative 
sound cards have practically no support in Ubuntu versions prior to 
Karmic (which I'm told does have support for them).

I'll start from the very beginning :-)

Fresh install of 9.04
Installed Display Driver (nVidia 180)
Updated System (is there a way to get a log of what updates I installed?)
Tried Creative Driver Guide 
(http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=870001)

OK, when I get to the sudo make install step (it's the very last one), 
it 'completes' it in my eyes, as it then shows me a new line ready to 
start typing a new command in.

The computer locks up after say 2-3 seconds, stays frozen for about 5 
seconds, then hard reboots.

It's obviously to do with the fact that I've just installed the Creative 
drivers (which don't work upon the reboot, they don't appear). So, is it 
something that can be fixed and perhaps allow me to get my soundcard 
working, or is it because of the fact that it is the sound card having 
incompatibilities?

The sound card has recently been very dodgy in Windows itself, and 
that's why I swapped to Ubuntu (the sound didn't work on my previous 
installation of 8.10 > 9.04). I'm hoping it isn't the card itself, but 
if it is then I guess I'll have to accept it :-)

Some more specs and info:

http://community.clantigercommunity.com/topic/rig-my-gaming-rig-28/1#p57

http://paste.ubuntu.com/234464/

I think that that's everything, but obviously shout at me if I missed 
something out.

If I'd be better off waiting for 9.10 to arrive, then I guess I'll be 
happy with that for now.

Thanks for the help!

Oh last thing - I remember a thread on here fairly recently about 
syncing an iPhone/iPod Touch through VirtualBox (XP) - did someone 
mention you had to have a binary package or something from the main 
site? I assume that that means I just download the Ubuntu package rather 
than the open source version? Thanks!

James Milligan