Installing software/Drivers

[Nevakonaza]

Hello people,

Well Vista was doing my head in,It always has done so ive dual booted with Ubuntu.

All is going well so far,my internet,Audio is working right out of the box so thats a good thing.

Problem is,because im a noob i dont know how to install applications?

ive downloaded these drivers for my Creative Soundblaster X-fi card so that i can customise the settings of my card to enable 5.1 channel.
Creative sound blaster x-fi linux driver - Linux * Screw

But how do i install them?

ive looked around in "Synaptic package manager" and "Adept manager" but cant find anyway of pointing them to install that file?

haha im sorry for been such a noob,i just want to learn linux.

many thanks

[jmadero]

windows drivers don't work in Linux (for the most part). There is no x-fi driver for linux yet, they are working on it (I have one as well and have been waiting for about a year). If you want to keep track of it go to the alsa-project website and click on "is my card supported" -- like I said, it's not right now and probably won't be for quite awhile.

If you downloaded the beta linux driver that Creative put out I've heard horrible things about it and creative has officially canceled plans to put out an official release (or any other release)

[D-cat]

I'm glad I can read Russian. :P

What you downloaded was source code. You can't install it as-is, you have to untar it first (kind of like unzipping), then compile the source into the driver (which will likely require the kernel sources installed), then the easiest part, installing the driver.

I'm out of time right now, I've got to leave, however to get you started, man tar, and once you get the tarball melted, read the enclosed README file.