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

[Takashi Iwai]

At Thu, 14 May 2009 22:07:33 +1000,
Michael (Micksa) Slade wrote:
> 
> Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > after some communications with Creative, I finally got a mergeable
> > version of their X-Fi driver.  It's not my crappy hack but by genuine
> > Creative :)
> >
> > The patch is now merged into sound-unstable GIT tree topic/ctxfi
> > branch:
> >   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-unstable-2.6.git
> >
> > The corresponding alsa-driver snapshot tarball is:
> >   ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/tiwai/snapshot/alsa-driver-unstable-snapshot.tar.gz
> Woo, worked first go! :)
> 
> I have a "Titanium fata1ity Pro" (1102:000b/1102:0043), and compiled 
> against Intrepid's current kernel (2.6.28-11).
> 
> I have only recently subscribed to the list and was just about to ask 
> what the deal was with the X-Fi driver.
> 
> So mplayer, aplay and audacious all play things.  Clearly works 
> perfectly then :)

Great.

> Does alsa have some sort of test suite or similar that I can run the 
> card through?

The way you tested should suffice as primary tests.
You can also try speaker-test for multi-channels.


Thanks!

Takashi