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

[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/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.