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

Michael (Micksa) Slade mslade at knobbits.org
Thu May 14 14:22:11 CEST 2009


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 :)
>
> Does alsa have some sort of test suite or similar that I can run the 
> card through?
>   
Oh, doesn't survive suspend/resume, and doesn't appear to work at 24bit.

Mick.



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