[alsa-devel] Problems with X-Fi driver

[Takashi Iwai]

At Mon, 01 Jun 2009 14:10:37 +0200,
Daniel Bankmann wrote:
> 
> Takashi Iwai schrieb:
> > At Fri, 22 May 2009 11:54:47 +0200,
> > Daniel Bankmann wrote:
> >> Takashi Iwai schrieb:
> >>> At Thu, 21 May 2009 09:53:23 +0200,
> >>> Daniel Bankmann wrote:
> >>>> Hi!
> >>>>
> >>>> I just tested the newest driver version with Open Suse 11.1 and
> >>>> pae-kernel. I seems not to work probably, although the latest
> "official"
> >>>> driver by Creative worked more or less good.
> >>>>
> >>>> The problem is, that always, when hearing some music or any other
> sound,
> >>>> the signal gets interrupted every few seconds. At the other side, the
> >>>> startup jingle for example is accompanied by a knock every few seconds.
> >>>>
> >>>> Any idea, or what information do you need to fix this?
> >>> If you are using pulseaudio, try to upgrade to the one in Factory.
> >>> PA on 11.1 is really a crappy version, unfortunately.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Takashi
> >>>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> are you sure, that this is a problem with PA?
> >
> > Depends on your system setup.  As default, PA is used on KDE and GNOME,
> > regardless of h/w multi-stream functions.
> >
> >> Upgrading to the newest
> >> version or the one in Factory seems to be a bit tricky (because auf
> >> missing dependencies).
> >
> > You can upgrade the packages on OBS multimedia:libs repo.
> >
> >> Shouldn't the driver just work without PA and ESD installed? I tried
> >> that out, but the problem still resists.
> >
> > It's not the driver to decide whether to use PA or not.  It's the
> > upper part.
> >
> > If the problem still occurs without PA (and you make sure that you
> > don't use it), the issue is likely the hwptr update timing of the
> > ctxfi driver.   The recent PCM core has a more strict check, and
> > possibly ctxfi might not provide the correct DMA position.
> >
> > Anyway, please check the problem occurs with which apps more exactly.
> > At best, try to reproduce with aplay and speaker-test programs, i.e.
> > with less complexity.  And, please report back to alsa-devel ML.
> > (Note that your post may appear later after manual approvals if you
> >  aren't subscribed yet).
> >
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> > Takashi
> >
> 
> Hi,
> 
> so I tried reproducing this problem. Here's a link to a wav-file which
> includes tests with aplay and the starting/shutdown -jingle.
> 
> I hope this can give you a better idea of my problem;)

Try the latest alsa-driver-snapshot.tar.gz.  It should be improved now
unless you are using emu20k2, not emu20k1.


Takashi