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

[Takashi Iwai]

At Thu, 14 May 2009 23:37:20 +1000,
Michael (Micksa) Slade wrote:
> 
> Takashi Iwai wrote:
> 
>     At Thu, 14 May 2009 23:07:59 +1000,
>     Michael (Micksa) Slade wrote:
> 
>         Takashi Iwai wrote:
>         
>             At Thu, 14 May 2009 22:34:09 +1000,
>             Michael (Micksa) Slade wrote:
>         
>                 Swtiched audacious to 24bit.  It very quietly plays a badly distorted version
>                 of the song :)
>         
>             What about aplay with 32bit samples?
>         
>         Seems to work fine.  Also 24bit.  Guess it's audacious' fault.  Probably.
> 
>     It's possible that audacious tries to access 24bit, not 32bit format, 
>     and ctxfi driver has a bug around that.
>     
>     Could you try the patch below?
> 
> [snip]
> 
> aplay still works in 24 and 32bit, audacious freezes (but you can still switch
> back to 16bit and it will play without having to kill and restart it)
> 
> What does that mean? :)

Hrm, I don't know what it's doing exactly...
Or, removing S24_3LE there might help?

I don't know exactly that audacious is doing.  Anyway, it's no
critical bug as a showstopper :)


thanks,

Takashi