From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Ted T. Logian" Subject: Re: Backported sbxfi driver (UNTESTED!) Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2008 13:25:40 -0500 Message-ID: <1223576740.18213.2.camel@home> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com (wa-out-1112.google.com [209.85.146.179]) by alsa0.perex.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D27D245A8 for ; Thu, 9 Oct 2008 20:26:00 +0200 (CEST) Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id l35so80765waf.16 for ; Thu, 09 Oct 2008 11:25:42 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org Errors-To: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org To: Takashi Iwai Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org I'm using fedora 9 with 2.6.26.5. Should I just be able to download ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/tiwai/snapshot/alsa-driver-unstable-snapshot.tar.bz2 configure and make install it and that should be it? I mean, do I need to do anything with my modprobe.conf? This is what I had when I had an emu10k1 card, is this driver called emu20k1? # ALSA portion # alias char-major-116 snd # alias snd-card-0 snd-emu10k1 #alias midi snd-synth-emu10k1 #install snd-emu10k1 /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-emu10k1 && /usr/sbin/alsactl restore >/dev/null 2>&1 || : #options snd-emu10k1 index=0 #remove snd-emu10k1 { /usr/sbin/alsactl store 0 >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ; }; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove # OSS/Free portion # alias char-major-14 soundcore # alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0 # card #1 #alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss #alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss #alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss #alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss #alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss #options snd-hda-intel index=0 #remove snd-hda-intel { /usr/sbin/alsactl store 0 >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ; }; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-hda-intel #install snd-usb-audio /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-usb-audio && /usr/sbin/alsactl restore >/dev/null 2>&1 || : #remove snd-usb-audio { /usr/sbin/alsactl store >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ; }; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-usb-audio #options snd-usb-audio index=2 #options cdc-acmsu vendor=0x22b8 product=0x2a64 #alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel #options snd-card-0 index=0 On Thu, 2008-10-09 at 20:02 +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote: > Hi, > > $SUBJECT is now on my sound-unstable git tree: > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-unstable-2.6.git > together with other experimental patches. > > If you're using 2.6.27-rc* git tree, pull the master branch of the > tree above into yours, and run make oldconfig. That is, > % cd /your/git-tree > % git pull git://...../sound-unstable-2.6.git master > > If you are not using 2.6.27-rc*, or not familiar with git, you can try > alsa-driver-unstable snapshot tarball available at > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/tiwai/snapshot/ > Run configure, make and make install as usual ALSA-driver tarball. > > (I didn't check whether the tarball correctly includes the sbxfi > stuff. It should have been generated automatically. If not, wait > for a while. If it still doesn't include sbxfi code, please report. > I'll fix it tomorrow morning.) > > The driver is built only for 2.6.26 or later. If you have an older > kernel, edit alsa-driver*/kconfig-vers and change the version of > CONFIG_SND_SBXFI to 2.6.24 or whatever you want. Then run > ./gitcompile, instead of configure in this case to update the > configure script. > > **NOTE** > The driver is totally untested. It's just compiled without errors, > but not reviewed after a quick writing. So, don't expect it ever runs > at the first try. A crash is highly possible. > > There are some build conditions found in sound/pci/sbxfi/sbxfi.c, > starting with XXX_*. You can change it if you want. As default, it's > for non-fullduplex but accept different rates. Not sure whether this > works at all. > > Any test- (and better debugging-) reports are appreciated. > > > thanks, > > Takashi > _______________________________________________ > Alsa-devel mailing list > Alsa-devel@alsa-project.org > http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel