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

[Takashi Iwai]

At Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:47:55 +0200,
Frank Roth wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
> Got it, there was a wrong default entry in
> /etc/modprobe.d/50-sound.conf
> ..made by alsaconf
> 
> alias snd-card-0 snd-ctxfi
> alias sound-slot-0 snd-ctxfi
> 
> 
> moved it now to
> /etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf
> and chanced to:
> 
> alias snd-card-0 snd_ctxfi
> alias sound-slot-0 snd_ctxfi
> 
> now it's fine ... so ... no conflict ... sorry.
> but maybe someone could look, why alsaconf had done this.

The former file name is the requirement by the recent
module-init-tools.  The question is rather why it doesn't work on your
system.  Maybe modprobe.d/* itself doesn't work?

Anyway, alsaconf is nowadays no longer recommended.  It's good for
detecting some very old ISA devices without PnP, but not for other
normal devices.


Takashi


> > 
> > 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
> 
> 
> 
> Found another problem ... maybe it isn't a bug ...
> 
> If I raise all volumes in alsamixer to 100% it starts to crackle while playing music ...
> If I lower one of the mixer volumes down to 90% it's fine.
> Maybe it's just overdriven ... but I'm relative sure, in windows I can gain everything to 100% without to be overdriven.
> 
> For now, I've set the PCM volume control to 90%, then I can do whatever I want with the master volume ;-)
> 
> 
> Greetings
> Frank
> 
> 
>