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

[Ted T. Logan]

I know the creative driver is in the kernel now for x-fi, but are there 
ever plans to at least have as much support for the SB0670 version of 
this product as the xfi drivers from creative?

On 08/06/2009 02:05 AM, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> At Wed, 5 Aug 2009 23:21:53 +0200,
> Christian Esken wrote:
>    
>> Am Sonntag 12 Juli 2009 16:07:49 schrieb Christian Esken:
>>      
>>> Am Sonntag 12 Juli 2009 10:24:35 schrieb Christian Esken:
>>>        
>>>> Am Montag 06 Juli 2009 08:26:11 schrieb Takashi Iwai:
>>>>          
>>>>> At Sun, 5 Jul 2009 13:29:48 +0200,
>>>>>
>>>>> Christian Esken wrote:
>>>>>            
>>>>>> Am Sonntag 05 Juli 2009 09:44:33 schrieb Takashi Iwai:
>>>>>>              
>>>>>>> At Sun, 5 Jul 2009 00:19:55 +0200,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Christian Esken wrote:
>>>>>>>                
>>>>>>>> Am Samstag 27 Juni 2009 14:05:45 schrieb Christian Esken:
>>>>>>>>                  
>>>>>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> unfortunately I cannot playback anything (PCM) with the new SB
>>>>>>>>> X-Fi driver. Driver:
>>>>>>>>> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/tiwai/snapshot/als
>>>>>>>>> a- driver-snapshot.tar.bz2
>>>>>>>>>    Distribution: openSuSE 11.1
>>>>>>>>>    Kernel: 2.6.27.23-0.1-xen
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> My card is a "X-Fi Titanium" (PCI device code: 1102:000b). The
>>>>>>>>> card is recognized by the driver, and any mixer (alsamixer,
>>>>>>>>> kmix) also recognizes the card.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> But playing back isn't possible. I tried speaker-test,
>>>>>>>>> audacity, amarok and aplay. Most applications  hang, some also
>>>>>>>>> produce an error in the /var/log/messages (see
>>>>>>>>> below).
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I then used "./configure --with-debug=full --with-cards=ctxfi"
>>>>>>>>> due to the possible hd-audio conflict, but it didn't make a
>>>>>>>>> difference.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Is there anything else I could try?
>>>>>>>>>                    
>>>>>>>> I tested the same openSuSE version with a non-Xen 64 bit kernel,
>>>>>>>> and it doesn't work either.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> And I tried with this:
>>>>>>>>    Driver: alsa-driver-20090704.tar.bz2
>>>>>>>>    Distribution: Kubuntu Karmic Alpha-2
>>>>>>>>    Kernel: 2.6.30  (32 Bit)
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Under the latter setup the X-Fi Titanium works (Simple 2 channel
>>>>>>>> test with speaker-test, audacity, amarok). :-))
>>>>>>>>                  
>>>>>>> How many RAM do you have?
>>>>>>> Could you boot with the limited memory size?
>>>>>>>                
>>>>>> It is just 2GB. So I am not limited by the 32 bit barrier.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> So booting with "limited" memory size doesn't make sense, right?
>>>>>>              
>>>>> Supposedly.  Is it emu20k1 or emu20k2?
>>>>>            
>>>> I checked it again: It is a 20k2 chip.
>>>>
>>>> /var/log/boot.msg says:
>>>> <7>ALSA /home/chris/Desktop/alsa-driver/pci/ctxfi/ctatc.c:1268: ctxfi:
>>>> chip 20K2 model SB0880 (1102:0041) is found
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> http://pci-ids.ucw.cz/mods/PC/1102/000b shows 1102:0041 as "X-Fi Titanium
>>>> series [EMU20k2]".
>>>>          
>>> I did now test it with a different 64 Bit Linux distribution, and it works
>>> correctly:
>>> Driver: alsa-driver-20090712.tar.bz2
>>> Distribution: Kubuntu Karmic Alpha-2
>>> Kernel: 2.6.30  (64 Bit)
>>>
>>> All in all, I can produce a working environment with recent 32 and 64 bit
>>> kernels. This is good news.  :-)
>>>
>>> Below is the summary on the tested distributions.
>>>
>>>    Christian
>>>
>>>
>>> So we got this:
>>> Kubuntu Karmic Alpha-2 32 Bit, 2.0.30 (works)
>>> Kubuntu Karmic Alpha-2 64 Bit, 2.0.30 (works)
>>> SuSE 11.1 64 Bit,  2.0.27 (does not work)
>>> SuSE 11.1 64 Bit,  2.0.27 XEN (does not work)
>>> SuSE 11.2 Milestone3  64Bit, 2.0.30 (test canceled, due to unrelated
>>> problems) =>  I'll see whether I can redo the SuSE11.2 tests, after doing a
>>> bugreport at openSuSE.
>>>        
>> OK, that SuSE11.2 Milestone3  bug has been fixed, but Milestone4 has ALSA (at
>> least soundcore)  built in the Kernel - I think I'll just give up further
>> testing until that gets "fixed".
>>      
> FYI, in the latest SUSE kernel, both are fixed: ALSA core is module
> again and the latest X-Fi code is already merged there.  So you don't
> have to use snapshot version at all for X-Fi.
>
>
> Takashi
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