Re: Problems with X-Fi driver

[Daniel Bankmann <daniel_bankmann@arcor.de>]

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