Re: SB X-Fi driver status update

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At Fri, 17 Oct 2008 11:34:46 +0400,The Source wrote:> > 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.
Could you elaborate?
> Just set mixer channel to > master in mplayer alsa output settings to avoid it.
If I understand correctly, you mean "PCM" mixer element is not found.OK, that's basically a problem of mplayer.  But, in future, we can add"PCM" mixer volume as well.
> This won't help > solve the sound-pause problem however.
Not sure about this yet.

thanks,
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