Re: Testers wanted: New SB X-Fi driver

[Christian Esken <esken@kde.org>]

Am Sonntag 05 Juli 2009 09:44:33 schrieb Takashi Iwai:
> At Sun, 5 Jul 2009 00:19:55 +0200,
>
> Christian Esken wrote:
> > Am Samstag 27 Juni 2009 14:05:45 schrieb Christian Esken:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > unfortunately I cannot playback anything (PCM) with the new SB X-Fi
> > > driver. Driver:
> > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/tiwai/snapshot/alsa-
> > > driver-snapshot.tar.bz2
> > >   Distribution: openSuSE 11.1
> > >   Kernel: 2.6.27.23-0.1-xen
> > >
> > > My card is a "X-Fi Titanium" (PCI device code: 1102:000b). The card is
> > > recognized by the driver, and any mixer (alsamixer, kmix) also
> > > recognizes the card.
> > >
> > > But playing back isn't possible. I tried speaker-test, audacity, amarok
> > > and aplay. Most applications  hang, some also produce an error in the
> > > /var/log/messages (see
> > > below).
> > >
> > > I then used "./configure --with-debug=full --with-cards=ctxfi" due to
> > > the possible hd-audio conflict, but it didn't make a difference.
> > >
> > > Is there anything else I could try?
> >
> > I tested the same openSuSE version with a non-Xen 64 bit kernel, and it
> > doesn't work either.
> >
> > And I tried with this:
> >   Driver: alsa-driver-20090704.tar.bz2
> >   Distribution: Kubuntu Karmic Alpha-2
> >   Kernel: 2.6.30  (32 Bit)
> >
> > Under the latter setup the X-Fi Titanium works (Simple 2 channel test
> > with speaker-test, audacity, amarok). :-))
>
> How many RAM do you have?
> Could you boot with the limited memory size?

It is just 2GB. So I am not limited by the 32 bit barrier.

So booting with "limited" memory size doesn't make sense, right?

   Christian