Install Alsa with support for Creative X-fi on Ubuntu

"First off, download the required packages: Download Now we need to setup the system to be able to compile these files so, open a terminal and use the following commands:

sudo apt-get update

apt-cache search linux-headers-$(uname -r)

sudo apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r)

sudo apt-get install build-essential

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