[alsa-devel] Backported sbxfi driver (UNTESTED!)

[Takashi Iwai]

At Mon, 13 Oct 2008 16:58:05 +0400,
Alexey Bazhin wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 13 Oct 2008 04:03:34 +0200
> Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de> wrote:
> 
> > At Sun, 12 Oct 2008 16:53:53 +0400,
> > Alexey Bazhin wrote:
> > > 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > I have just compiled driver from git and try to run it. My card is
> > > pci: 1102:0005 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB X-Fi
> > > 
> > > I got following:
> > > 
> > > root at mayonaka:~# modprobe snd-sbxfi
> > > root at mayonaka:~# speaker-test -c 2 -r 96000 -t sine
> > > 
> > > speaker-test 1.0.15
> > > 
> > > Playback device is default
> > > Stream parameters are 96000Hz, S16_LE, 2 channels
> > > Sine wave rate is 440.0000Hz
> > > Rate set to 96000Hz (requested 96000Hz)
> > > [  262.522739] XFi DAC reset timeout
> > > 
> > > Period size ran[  262.564029] XFi DAC reset timeout
> > > ge from 32 to 16[  262.620275] XFi DAC reset timeout
> > > 384
> > > Using max b[  262.676529] XFi DAC reset timeout
> > > uffer size 16384[  262.732784] XFi DAC reset timeout
> > > 
> > > Periods = 4
> > > w[  262.789038] XFi DAC reset timeout
> > > as set period_size = 4096
> > > was set buffer_size = 16384
> > >  0 - Front Left
> > > [  327.491997] BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 61s! [swapper:0]
> > > [  327.492001] Kernel panic - not syncing: softlockup: hung tasks
> > > 
> > > and i did hear the sine on the left channel. Hope it helps...
> > 
> > Try the very latest sound-unstable tree.  Some fixes are there...
> Without debug i got the same, with debug my box freezed without
> panic, i'l reset it when i get home and will try it again...

Try the latest version.  Another fix was there.


Takashi