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 15:17:58 -0500 Message-ID: <1223583478.5018.0.camel@home> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from wf-out-1314.google.com (wf-out-1314.google.com [209.85.200.175]) by alsa0.perex.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24B8C2462E for ; Thu, 9 Oct 2008 22:18:19 +0200 (CEST) Received: by wf-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 24so291003wfg.23 for ; Thu, 09 Oct 2008 13:18:01 -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 Sorry for the multiple posts, but once I rmmod snd-sbxfi, running mixer does fine. It seems if I have snd-sbxfi loaded and I run alsamixer, it locks the entire system. 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