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

[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?


Takashi

> 
> What I now know/believe is this:
> - Alsa driver : not responisible (it works)
> - My Computer hardware : not responsible (it works)
>  - Xen kernel: quite likely not responsible
>  - Kernel < 2.6.30: Probably responsible
>  - 64 Bit: Probably responsible
> - Other less likely stuff like NVIDIA driver (nv vs nvidia): Could be checked
> 
> I will now check other combinations. Next will be Kernel 2.6.30 (64 bit), 
> using openSUSE 11.2-Milestone3.
> 
>    Christian
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