[alsa-devel] Testers wanted: New SB X-Fi driver

Frank Roth frashman at freenet.de
Mon Jul 20 14:33:37 CEST 2009


I wrote the patch on my own ... *happy*
it works now ;-)

how to upload?


Greetings,
Frank




Frank schrieb:
> Oh sorry ... I mean ... SIDE and SURROUND (==REAR) are swapped!
>
> Frashman schrieb:
>   
>> Takashi Iwai schrieb:
>>     
>>> At Wed, 15 Jul 2009 12:55:23 +0200,
>>> Frashman wrote:
>>>  
>>>       
>>>> Hi Takashi,
>>>>
>>>> first of all, thank you for developing this driver.
>>>> I tested it today. It works, so far.
>>>>
>>>> But two annoying things. As you mentioned, I got problems, if the 
>>>> onboard sound modules are loaded. Then i get no sound out auf my xfi.
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> It's likely the collision of PCI device ID.
>>> Some X-Fi models support both HD-audio and emu20kx-native modes.  The
>>> modes are switched by some magical sequence.
>>>
>>> Anyway, please run alsa-info.sh with --no-upload option, and attach
>>> the generated file.
>>>   
>>>       
>> I let the kernel auto probe all sound modules and generated then the 
>> alsa-info.txt
>> It's attached.
>>     
>>>  
>>>       
>>>> If I disable the loading of snd-hda-intel modules while booting, 
>>>> then it works.
>>>>
>>>> The second problem is, that SIDE and SURROUND connectors are 
>>>> interchanged. I'm absolutly sure, it works fine under windows and 
>>>> the connector colors are also correct.
>>>>
>>>> If I run speaker-test -c8 the SIDE Speakers sounds come out of my 
>>>> REAR (SURROUND) Speakers, while nothing is coming out of my rear 
>>>> speakers, if i'm using speaker-test -c6
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> So, the side channels (channel 7 & 8) and the rear channels (3 & 4)
>>> are swapped when running with 8 channel mode?
>>>   
>>>       
>> The REAR and SURROUND channels are swapped in 4, 6 and 8channel mode 
>> ... so they always swapped. (speaker-test)
>> AND because there are swapped in 6channel mode too .... there is 
>> nothing coming out of the rear channels, if I connect everything 
>> right. I double checked it with windows and with cable colors.
>>
>>
>> Sincerely,
>> Frashman
>>     
>>> Takashi
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