[alsa-devel] Problems with X-Fi driver

[Takashi Iwai]

At Mon, 08 Jun 2009 22:48:07 +0200,
Daniel Bankmann wrote:
> 
> Takashi Iwai schrieb:
> > 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
> > 
> 
> I'm sorry, it didn't change anything ( Although I'm using a "Extreme
> Music" card with the emu20k1 chip)

Hm, weird.  Are you sure that you installed properly?
It works fine at least on my machine with openSUSE 11.1.


Takashi