Re: Backported sbxfi driver (UNTESTED!)

["Ted T. Logian" <tedtheologian@gmail.com>]

Nevermind, 

I got it to compile/install on my fedora machine, and the modules load.
However, when I run "alsamixer" or click on gnome's mixer applet, it
locks my entire system.  I used your tarball from your site... sbxfi is
loaded, etc.

Linux home 2.6.26.5-45.fc9.i686 #1 SMP Sat Sep 20 03:45:00 EDT 2008 i686
i686 i386 GNU/Linux
 rpmq alsa
alsa-oss-devel-1.0.15-0.1.fc9.i386
alsa-lib-1.0.17-2.fc9.i386
alsa-oss-1.0.15-0.1.fc9.i386
alsa-utils-1.0.17-2.fc9.i386
alsa-plugins-pulseaudio-1.0.16-4.fc9.i386
alsa-plugins-oss-1.0.16-4.fc9.i386
alsa-oss-libs-1.0.15-0.1.fc9.i386
alsa-lib-devel-1.0.17-2.fc9.i386
alsa-tools-1.0.16-4.fc9.i386
bluez-utils-alsa-3.35-5.fc9.i386

cat /etc/modprobe.conf
alias eth0 e100
alias scsi_hostadapter ata_piix

# ivtv (PVR-150MCE)
alias char-major-81 ivtv
options ivtv enc_mpg_buffers=16 ivtv_first_minor=1
alias gspca /dev/video1
#pre-install gspca /sbin/modprobe ivtv
# ALSA portion
   alias char-major-116 snd
   alias snd-card-0 snd-sbxfi
alias midi snd-synth-sbxfi
install snd-sbxfi /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-sbxfi
&& /usr/sbin/alsactl restore >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
options snd-sbxfi index=0
remove snd-sbxfi { /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
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