Problems with X-Fi driver

[Daniel Bankmann <daniel_bankmann@arcor.de>]

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.
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>
>
> 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;)

Daniel

http://rapidshare.com/files/239574432/output_test.wav