Re: SB X-Fi driver status update

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Alexey Bazhin пишет:> On Thu, 16 Oct 2008 15:18:32 +0200> Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> wrote:>>   >> Hi,>>>> now I'm stabilizing the driver a bit.  I hope it won't hang up any>> more (so often), and make you happy testing. >>     > speakers-test and aplay works perfect with both base_rates and any> sample rate (tried only stereo samples), but mplayer become more glitchy> - sound pauses for a bit every 5-10 seconds, dmesg included.>>   >> - As default, the driver works only as a constant sample rate, either>>   48000 or 96000 (default).  The rate can be changed via the module>>   option base_rate.  For enabling the continuous rate support (it was>>   on before), define XXX_CONT_RATE in sbxfi.c.>>     > only tried speakers-test:> 96khz works fine> 48khz plays slow (frequency is lower than it should be)> 44.1khz silent, speakers-test ends with error, dmesg included.>> root@mayonaka:~# speaker-test -c 2 -r 44100 -t sine>> speaker-test 1.0.15>> Playback device is default> Stream parameters are 44100Hz, S16_LE, 2 channels> Sine wave rate is 440.0000Hz> Rate set to 44100Hz (requested 44100Hz)> Buffer size range from 32 to 16384> Period size range from 32 to 16384> Using max buffer size 16384> Periods = 4> was set period_size = 4096> was set buffer_size = 16384>  0 - Front Left> Write error: -5,Input/output error> xrun_recovery failed: -5,Input/output error> Transfer failed: Operation not permitted>  >   >> - If playback works well, try to define XXX_USE_SG in sbxfi.c.  This>>   will make the driver using SG buffer instead of continuous pages.>>     > works absolutely the same as without it.>>   >> - Also, test SBXFI_DMA_MASK being DMA_32BIT_MASK, especially if you>>   have RAM more than 2GB.>>     > i have 3GB RAM on my test box, everything worked fine with 32-bit mask,> but i haven't done many tests...>>   >> - You can try dmix as well.  E.g. simply run like >> 	% aplay -Dplug:dmix:0 foo.wav>>     > works fine.>>   > ------------------------------------------------------------------------>> _______________________________________________> Alsa-devel mailing list> Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel>   --I tested several players with alsa (oss causes oops):--xine works fine--xmms ok--mplayer constantly shows some error message I wasn't able to read --(it's--blinking) and sound pauses for ~0.2 second every ~27 seconds.
mplayer error message was about PCM not found. Just set mixer channel to master in mplayer alsa output settings to avoid it. This won't help solve the sound-pause problem however.
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