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

Takashi Iwai tiwai at suse.de
Mon Jul 20 19:50:05 CEST 2009


At Thu, 16 Jul 2009 12:19:15 +0200,
Frashman wrote:
> 
> 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.

The PCI ID looks different from what snd-hda-intel driver supports.
When compiled together with snd-ctxfi, snd-hda-intel only probes
PCI ID 1002:0009.

Are you sure that it's hda-intel that interferes the xfi?
Any relevant kernel messages or asound entry when this happens?


Takashi


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