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

Takashi Iwai tiwai at suse.de
Tue Oct 14 10:55:48 CEST 2008


At Tue, 14 Oct 2008 12:48:31 +0400,
The Source wrote:
> 
> Takashi Iwai пишет:
> > At Mon, 13 Oct 2008 23:21:47 +0400,
> > Alexey Bazhin wrote:
> >   
> >> On Mon, 13 Oct 2008 18:05:49 +0200
> >> Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de> wrote:
> >>
> >>     
> >>> At Mon, 13 Oct 2008 18:02:08 +0200,
> >>> I wrote:
> >>>       
> >>>> At Mon, 13 Oct 2008 17:43:03 +0200,
> >>>> I wrote:
> >>>>         
> >>>>> For example, the latest snapshot I uploaded now has
> >>>>> alsa-kernel/HEAD: a3e1ef74a8ec8b6e3c30f7aa06c5d5d2f2bea7a9 Merge
> >>>>> branch 'topic/sbxfi'
> >>>>>           
> >>>> ... and again updated to:
> >>>>   5d425dd626d107ff2b2ea97c27068f7ee4b36dd1 Merge branch
> >>>> 'topic/sbxfi'
> >>>>         
> >>> So, guys, please check the latest one.
> >>>
> >>> If the hang up still occurs with this version, then try to define
> >>> XXX_SYSTEM_TIMER in sbxfi.c, which is undefined as default.
> >>> With this build option, the driver will use the system timer instead
> >>> of emu20k1 timer irqs.
> >>>
> >>> If this still doesn't help, try to remove all spinlocks.  That is,
> >>> just comment out all spin_lock*() and spin_unlock*() calls to avoid
> >>> spin deadlocks.  Of course, it can be racy, but better than a spin
> >>> deadlock.
> >>>       
> >> Now it doesn't hangs :)
> >>     
> >
> > Glad to hear.  Did you have to use XXX_SYSTEM_TIMER or any workaround
> > needed?  Or, did it work as is?
> >
> >   
> >> but speakers-test produces crackling sine and
> >> fails on test...
> >>     
> >
> > Do you mean it aborts some time later after starting the stream?
> > Could you show the kernel messages?  The default debug level should
> > suffice, I guess.  If any, try debug=2.
> >
> >   
> >> 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)
> >> Buffer size range from 32 to 16384
> >> Period size range from 32 to 16384
> >> Using max buffer size 16384
> >> Periods = 4
> >> was set period_size = 4096
> >> was set buffer_size = 16384
> >>  0 - Front Left
> >> Write error: -5,Input/output error
> >> xrun_recovery failed: -5,Input/output error
> >> Transfer failed: Operation not permitted
> >>
> >> Also i tried mplayer, 96khz works almost fine (very rare cracklings),
> >> 48khz plays slow (like playing 96khz sample on 48khz rate without
> >> resampling), 44.1khz doesn't work at all (mplayer doesn't even
> >> show that it plays).
> >>     
> >
> > How about the patch below for 48kHz?
> >
> > Not sure whether 44.1kHz works at all with the current driver code.
> > I just guessed that the pitch parameter would handle that.  But, maybe
> > it's not enough...
> >
> >   
> >> Master control on mixer seems to be working fine.
> >>     
> >
> > OK.
> >
> > [BTW, it'd be appreciated if you add my address to Cc (or, To: my
> >  address and Cc: to ML like other people do), so that I can check your
> >  post quickly.]
> >
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> > Takashi
> >
> >
> > diff --git a/sound/pci/sbxfi/sbxfi.c b/sound/pci/sbxfi/sbxfi.c
> > index 3fde6a9..47ba941 100644
> > --- a/sound/pci/sbxfi/sbxfi.c
> > +++ b/sound/pci/sbxfi/sbxfi.c
> > @@ -1005,7 +1005,8 @@ static void sbxfi_setup_play_pitch(struct sbxfi *chip,
> >  	unsigned int pitch, pitch_ch;
> >  
> >  	/* convert to fixed-point 8.24 format */
> > -	pitch = div_u64(runtime->rate * (1ULL << 24), chip->base_rate);
> > +	/* pitch = div_u64(runtime->rate * (1ULL << 24), chip->base_rate); */
> > +	pitch = div_u64(runtime->rate * (1ULL << 24), 96000);
> >  
> >  	for (i = 0; i < 2; i++) {
> >  		/* write the pitch to param ring of the corresponsing SRC
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> >   
> 
> Tried 96KHz sample (24bit, Little Endian, 96000Hz, Stereo). No crash, 
> hang, reboot. oops, panic etc. But no sound too.

Strange.  Oops shouldn't depend on the rate, at least...

Did you raise the master volume?


Takashi


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