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

[Alexey Bazhin]

On Mon, 08 Jun 2009 08:57:31 +0200
Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de> wrote:

> At Sat, 06 Jun 2009 21:02:42 +0200,
> Gernot Kohlhaas wrote:
> > 
> > Hi and thanks for this driver.
> > It works great and even 6- and 8-Channel-Output is supported now.
> > 
> > The only two little things I noticed are:
> > 1. Most programs are looking for "surround51" to use for
> > multichannel sound. But this driver only provides the
> > "default"-Device (in it's description it says:
> > 
> > aplay -L
> > default:CARD=XFi
> >     Creative X-Fi, Front/WaveIn
> >     Default Audio Device
> > 
> > )
> 
> Use the latest alsa-lib snapshot.  The config file for X-Fi is already
> there.
Hmm... I see a definition for iec958 in SB-XFI.conf, but aplay -L
doesn't list it for my card.

root at mayonaka:~# aplay -L
default:CARD=XFi
    Creative X-Fi, Front/WaveIn
    Default Audio Device
front:CARD=XFi,DEV=0
    Creative X-Fi, Front/WaveIn
    Front speakers
surround40:CARD=XFi,DEV=0
    Creative X-Fi, Front/WaveIn
    4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers
surround41:CARD=XFi,DEV=0
    Creative X-Fi, Front/WaveIn
    4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround50:CARD=XFi,DEV=0
    Creative X-Fi, Front/WaveIn
    5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers
surround51:CARD=XFi,DEV=0
    Creative X-Fi, Front/WaveIn
    5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround71:CARD=XFi,DEV=0
    Creative X-Fi, Front/WaveIn
    7.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Side, Rear and Woofer speakers
null
    Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)


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