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? 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 > _______________________________________________ > Alsa-devel mailing list > Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel > _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
