Re: [alsa-devel] Testers wanted: New SB X-Fi driver
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/alsa- 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.
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".
Well, in any case this is a postive report: It works with both 32 and 64 bit 2.0.30 kernels (using Kubuntu Karmic-Alpha-2).
Christian
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
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 _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@alsa-project.org http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
At Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:01:49 -0600, Ted T. Logan wrote:
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?
No plan right now. We definitely need more information *and* more testers who have the same problem, in addition to free hours for development. All are missing for the time being...
Takashi
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 _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@alsa-project.org http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
Upon upgrading to fedora core 12 and it's kernel and various libraries, etc., my sb0670 xfi works with included kernel drivers.
On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 09:05 +0200, 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 _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@alsa-project.org http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
At Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:38:05 -0600, Ted T. Logan wrote:
Upon upgrading to fedora core 12 and it's kernel and various libraries, etc., my sb0670 xfi works with included kernel drivers.
Interesting. So, I'm wondering whether this was really a kernel issue.
Takashi
On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 09:05 +0200, 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 _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@alsa-project.org http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
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