[alsa-devel] SB X-Fi driver fixes (Re: Testers wanted: New SB X-Fi driver)

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On 09.06.2009 06:20, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> At Mon, 08 Jun 2009 22:16:01 +0200,
> Gernot Kohlhaas wrote:
>    
>> Takashi Iwai schrieb:
>>      
>>> Please check alsa-driver/HEAD and alsa-driver/alsa-kernel/HEAD
>>> to identify which version you are using.  Update to the latest one,
>>> too.
>>> Also, don't forget to enable the debug option via --with-debug=full
>>> to configure script.
>>>        
>> alsa-driver-snapshot downloaded today.
>>
>> alsa-driver/HEAD:
>> dae8eb6334cc973b91a29a973108dcbba4ac24bf Fix ctatc.patch
>> f89c50e8a567e1e34931dae07d8adc6cbe08e108 Add linux/math64.h compat header
>> b387a66e3bdf25284ef2f57545d305735e4646e3 Add missing pci/ctxfi/cttimer.c
>> 955ee62b99a82018196b9f668a5ee6606175109e Merge branch 'topic/maya44'
>> 6254b0fa8631a8a2a83fbc3eff36b512d834118d alsa-info.sh: Provide system
>> manufacturer and product name from DMI
>> bbfb14518b44c3caba5c5bc351c9ee340a96d867 Add parsing of def_tristate to
>> mod-deps
>> 93e325ec42cbf842799bfbdf28b17c7f81f8089e Regenerated riptide.patch
>> 5a4737e4e0ef6587e7f6ca84ccdc6f88c54cf18a Add soc/txx9 build stub
>> bf12e88a905bfd49206eb2519a5519564e9a2b94 ctxfi - Fix build with older kernel
>> dfec670bc3bd3351b61dcd40b4c2ced4f95b91d8 ctxfi - Add new PCI ids to
>> pci_ids_compat.h.in
>>
>> alsa-driver/alsa-kernel/HEAD
>> 299c425e12d437bd413aa45381cf035bbc67e545 Merge branch 'topic/ctxfi'
>> 09521d2e3edd0bf02b66e5b8c13f1559f2d6958a ALSA: ctxfi - Fix wrong model
>> id for UAA
>> 549d272ac7d0d98c1fb3419108befb05f88605d7 Merge branch 'topic/ctxfi'
>> 9470195a9cd13e6d90221b8b5d897e9232da8d28 ALSA: ctxfi - Clean up probe
>> routines
>> ec46e1d31cb6ff5bac6333c06b6b79c941368cb4 Merge branch 'topic/hda'
>> f03ecf50534a81b06544c58a713076d59d54baf9 ALSA: hda - Fix the previous
>> tagra-8ch patch
>> 3885e40ccf9629f1cda4aac23f3d6c9c82fb875e Merge branch 'topic/hda'
>> 64a8be74357477558183b43156c5536b642de134 ALSA: hda - Add 7.1 support for
>> MSI GX620
>> 318192e14f80bb883dfd06eb9ea8aa22e7353dd3 Merge branch
>> 'topic/pcm-jiffies-check'
>> c00701101b82f2bc61dfc259748ec6e5288af6a9 ALSA: pcm - A helper function
>> to compose PCM stream name for debug prints
>>
>> The crash happened with alsa-driver-unstable-snapshot from 2009-06-07
>> and with alsa-driver-snapshot from 2009-06-08.
>>
>> Still no usable output. Only dmesg gives me two more lines when loading
>> the module:
>> ALSA /usr/src/alsa-driver/pci/ctxfi/ctatc.c:1248: ctxfi: chip 20K1 model
>> Unknown (1102:002c) is found
>> SB-XFi 0000:05:00.0: PCI INT A ->  GSI 16 (level, low) ->  IRQ 16
>> ALSA
>> /usr/src/alsa-driver/pci/ctxfi/../../alsa-kernel/pci/ctxfi/cttimer.c:419:
>> ctxfi: Use xfi-native timer
>>
>> With debug=full, the sound gets distorted every 1/3 second.
>>
>> The crash only happens in xmms and audacious, when my upmix-device is
>> used (there I use a low pass filter via ladspa). When I use the default
>> device, it just plays fine (but only plain stereo without subwoofer ;) ).
>> I'll try to disable the low pass filter to see, if it works better.
>>      
> Also, do you mean that the default output works without 1/3 second
> distortion?  Or, the distortion happens regardless of your PCM device
> setup?
>
> I'd like to concentrate on debugging the default setup at first,
> so better to reduce the risk of brokenness of ladspa plugin.
> If you get any severe problems with the default setup, please let me
> know more details.
>
>
> thanks,
>
> Takashi
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>    
PA now works, thank you. Still 'ticks' with OpenAL though