Re: Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi and X-Fi Titanium Series Linux 32bit/64bit Driver Source released

From: Brendan Pike <spike@spykes.net>
To: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Cc: Bjoern@alsa-project.org, alsa-devel@alsa-project.org,
	The Source <thesourcehim@gmail.com>, Olausson <lkmlist@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi and X-Fi Titanium Series Linux 32bit/64bit Driver Source released
Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 12:56:36 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081106125636.668744e4@darius> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <s5hskq4sr4d.wl%tiwai@suse.de>

Takashi, your efforts have not gone unnoticed.
Very appreciated of what you accomplished in such a small timeframe.

I finally stuffed the X-Fi in my workstation today as I had to install
a HiFn crypto accelerator card anyways.

The Creative provided source compiles into a single kernel module,
unlike the huge binary mess Creative released back in April.

On Thu, 06 Nov 2008 18:26:10 +0100 Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> wrote:

> At Thu, 06 Nov 2008 20:20:09 +0300,
> The Source wrote:
> > 
> > Bjoern Olausson пишет:
> > > Creative released a driver today....
> > > I am hasitating to install it.. the last one was so crappy and I just
> > > installed my gentoo new ;-)
> > >
> > > But it looks really like the SOURCE, so maybe it will help to pimp the
> > > ALSA driver (would rather see an implementation in alsa then an driver
> > > from Creative)
> > >
> > > http://forums.creative.com/creativelabs/board/message?board.id=soundblaster&thread.id=132288
> > >
> > > http://support.creative.com/downloads/download.aspx?nDownloadId=10792
> > >
> > > Kind regards
> > > Bjoern
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> > >
> > >   
> > Tried that driver. It oopses for my system (2.6.26.6-79.fc9.x86_64). I 
> > attached dmesg output with oops trace log. Since that driver is open 
> > source, this log might be interesting for you. Pergaps you can get the 
> > driver to working state?
> 
> Perhaps, but I don't want to give such a funny game like debugging
> away from you ;)
> 
> Yeah, I'm going to check their driver later, maybe tomorrow or weekend
> (I've been pretty busy in these weeks for other stuff).
> 
> Anyway it's a great news if they really opened the source codes.
> Hopefully my work wasn't a waste... at least to motivate them toward
> the right direction.
> 
> 
> thanks,
> 
> Takashi
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