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

[Takashi Iwai]

At Mon, 24 Aug 2009 21:43:20 +0200,
Christian Esken wrote:
> 
> On Wednesday 05 August 2009 23:21:53 Christian Esken wrote:
> 
> > > 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, 2.6.30 (works)
> > > Kubuntu Karmic Alpha-2 64 Bit, 2.6.30 (works)
> > > SuSE 11.1 64 Bit,  2.6.27 (does not work)
> > > SuSE 11.1 64 Bit,  2.6.27 XEN (does not work)
> > > SuSE 11.2 Milestone3  64Bit, 2.6.30 (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 last issue was solved, and I now redid the test:
> 
> SuSE 11.2 Milestone6 64Bit, 2.6.31-rc6   (works)
> 
> I succesfully tested all analog (5.1) channels, using: speaker-test -D 
> surround51 -c 6
> 
> I used ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/tiwai/snapshot/alsa-
> driver-snapshot.tar.bz2 from 24.08.2009. I am just wondering, whether the new 
> ALSA driver is it still planned for the 2.6.31 kernel?!?

2.6.31 already includes most of X-Fi patches.
And the recent openSUSE 11.2 kernels include all X-Fi patches :)


Takashi