From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Brendan Pike Subject: Re: Backported sbxfi driver (UNTESTED!) Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 14:12:44 -0400 Message-ID: <20081009141244.712db240@darius> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail.spykes.net (dsl.spykes.net [76.10.173.13]) by alsa0.perex.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2CB424590 for ; Thu, 9 Oct 2008 20:13:02 +0200 (CEST) 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 On Thu, 09 Oct 2008 20:02:01 +0200 Takashi Iwai wrote: > **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 Thank you, will test this later. As coincidental as it seems I pulled my X-Fi Prelude from my machine last night during cleaning, and never bothered reinstalling it as I had a bit of lost hope. This is definitely a huge start. All of us pushing Creative to release some specs without a ridiculous NDA would be a big next step. Cheers, Bren