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

[Takashi Iwai]

At Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:01:49 -0600,
Ted T. Logan wrote:
> 
> I know the creative driver is in the kernel now for x-fi, but are there 
> ever plans to at least have as much support for the SB0670 version of 
> this product as the xfi drivers from creative?

No plan right now.  We definitely need more information *and* more
testers who have the same problem, in addition to free hours for
development.  All are missing for the time being...


Takashi

> On 08/06/2009 02:05 AM, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > At Wed, 5 Aug 2009 23:21:53 +0200,
> > Christian Esken wrote:
> >    
> >> Am Sonntag 12 Juli 2009 16:07:49 schrieb 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/als
> >>>>>>>>> a- 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.
> >>>        
> >> OK, that SuSE11.2 Milestone3  bug has been fixed, but Milestone4 has ALSA (at
> >> least soundcore)  built in the Kernel - I think I'll just give up further
> >> testing until that gets "fixed".
> >>      
> > FYI, in the latest SUSE kernel, both are fixed: ALSA core is module
> > again and the latest X-Fi code is already merged there.  So you don't
> > have to use snapshot version at all for X-Fi.
> >
> >
> > Takashi
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