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

The Source thesourcehim at gmail.com
Wed Oct 15 09:16:32 CEST 2008


Takashi Iwai пишет:
> At Tue, 14 Oct 2008 15:24:22 +0400,
> The Source wrote:
>   
>> By the way, note, that not rate may cause oops but number of channles 
>> for example (wav that causes oops has mono mode and the one that just 
>> plays silently - stereo. Also the oops sample is 16bit, silent one is 
>> 24bit).
>>     
>
> This is an important information.  The driver basically supports only
> 16bit stereo samples natively.  The others are covered by alsa-lib,
> and this involves with the mmap mode.
>
> But I still wonder why 16bit mode.
>
> OK, the below is *THE* test I'd like ask you guys to try first.
>
> - Build the driver with --with-debug=detect option
> - Load the driver with debug=2 module option
> - Prepare a WAV file with 96kHz 16bit stereo, e.g. converted via sox
> - Raise the Master volume to the max
> - Run "aplay this.wav"
>
> At *each* run, check your kernel message.  If you get Oops, copy the
> whole log immediately.
>
> - If you get a DMA error or so in the kernel message, try to define
>   XXX_SYSTEM_TIMER in sbxfi.c, rebuild and reinstall the driver.
>   Run the same test.
>
> - If still any serious problem, load the module with debug=3 option,
>   and get the whole kernel message with full register accesses.
>
>
> thanks,
>
> Takashi
>
>   
I've done what you have asked. I've got no oopses or other things like 
that. But again not sound. I've tried with debug=2 and debug=3. 
Attaching the whole dmesg output.
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