From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Daniel Bankmann Subject: Re: Problems with X-Fi driver Date: Mon, 08 Jun 2009 22:48:07 +0200 Message-ID: <4A2D7907.2070404@arcor.de> References: <4A23C53D.8070201@arcor.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail-in-07.arcor-online.net (mail-in-07.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.47]) by alsa0.perex.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66E4C1037F2 for ; Mon, 8 Jun 2009 22:47:54 +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 Takashi Iwai schrieb: > At Mon, 01 Jun 2009 14:10:37 +0200, > Daniel Bankmann wrote: >> Takashi Iwai schrieb: >>> At Fri, 22 May 2009 11:54:47 +0200, >>> Daniel Bankmann wrote: >>>> Takashi Iwai schrieb: >>>>> At Thu, 21 May 2009 09:53:23 +0200, >>>>> Daniel Bankmann wrote: >>>>>> Hi! >>>>>> >>>>>> I just tested the newest driver version with Open Suse 11.1 and >>>>>> pae-kernel. I seems not to work probably, although the latest >> "official" >>>>>> driver by Creative worked more or less good. >>>>>> >>>>>> The problem is, that always, when hearing some music or any other >> sound, >>>>>> the signal gets interrupted every few seconds. At the other side, the >>>>>> startup jingle for example is accompanied by a knock every few seconds. >>>>>> >>>>>> Any idea, or what information do you need to fix this? >>>>> If you are using pulseaudio, try to upgrade to the one in Factory. >>>>> PA on 11.1 is really a crappy version, unfortunately. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Takashi >>>>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> are you sure, that this is a problem with PA? >>> Depends on your system setup. As default, PA is used on KDE and GNOME, >>> regardless of h/w multi-stream functions. >>> >>>> Upgrading to the newest >>>> version or the one in Factory seems to be a bit tricky (because auf >>>> missing dependencies). >>> You can upgrade the packages on OBS multimedia:libs repo. >>> >>>> Shouldn't the driver just work without PA and ESD installed? I tried >>>> that out, but the problem still resists. >>> It's not the driver to decide whether to use PA or not. It's the >>> upper part. >>> >>> If the problem still occurs without PA (and you make sure that you >>> don't use it), the issue is likely the hwptr update timing of the >>> ctxfi driver. The recent PCM core has a more strict check, and >>> possibly ctxfi might not provide the correct DMA position. >>> >>> Anyway, please check the problem occurs with which apps more exactly. >>> At best, try to reproduce with aplay and speaker-test programs, i.e. >>> with less complexity. And, please report back to alsa-devel ML. >>> (Note that your post may appear later after manual approvals if you >>> aren't subscribed yet). >>> >>> >>> thanks, >>> >>> Takashi >>> >> Hi, >> >> so I tried reproducing this problem. Here's a link to a wav-file which >> includes tests with aplay and the starting/shutdown -jingle. >> >> I hope this can give you a better idea of my problem;) > > Try the latest alsa-driver-snapshot.tar.gz. It should be improved now > unless you are using emu20k2, not emu20k1. > > > Takashi > I'm sorry, it didn't change anything ( Although I'm using a "Extreme Music" card with the emu20k1 chip) Daniel