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

[Takashi Iwai]

At Thu, 14 May 2009 22:22:11 +1000,
Michael (Micksa) Slade wrote:
> 
> 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,

It's expected.  PM isn't supported yet with this driver.

> and doesn't appear to work at 24bit.

That's bad.  How did you test it?


thanks,

Takashi