[Openal] openal future

[Sven Panne]

[ OK, this is *really* getting off-topic, but I guess this is the best place 
for such a thread, anyway... ]

Am Montag, 27. April 2009 23:34:12 schrieb Jason Daly:
> [...]
> Have you tried the latest X-Fi drivers for Linux (the 1.0 release)?  I
> have no idea why they were shipped so silently, but they seem to have
> addressed just about every problem I ever had with them.  I downloaded
> them, followed the instructions, and they just worked (even on Fedora 10
> 64-bit), no quirky installation, no clunky recompiling, no problems
> loading the modules.  I was quite surprised, and very pleased.
>
> Don't go to the old Beta site, go to the regular Creative Labs driver
> download site.  The latest driver was released November of 2008. [...]

Well, to be honest, that driver release was a big disappointment for me. It 
didn't work out of the box for me, either. After inspecting the kernel log and 
fiddling around with "lspci -v" I found that I had to patch the driver for my 
X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Champion:

----------------------------------------------------------
--- XFiDrv_Linux_Public_US_1.00/ctdrv.h 2008-10-30 09:19:02.000000000 +0100
+++ drivers/XFiDrv/XFiDrv_Linux_Public_US_1.00/ctdrv.h  2009-01-11 
12:11:04.000000000 +0100
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 #define PCI_DEVICE_CREATIVE_20K2       0x000B
 #define PCI_SUBVENDOR_CREATIVE         0x1102
 #define PCI_SUBSYS_CREATIVE_SB0760     0x0024
-#define PCI_SUBSYS_CREATIVE_SB0880     0x0041
+#define PCI_SUBSYS_CREATIVE_SB0880     0x0043
 #define PCI_SUBSYS_CREATIVE_HENDRIX    0x6000

 #define CT_XFI_DMA_MASK                        0xffffffffUL /* 32 bits */
----------------------------------------------------------

After that, the card works, but only in a very, very basic way. I see only a 
few inputs and only stereo output, the front module is not working at all, 
etc. Are there any hints to make the card more functional under Linux? Even my 
crappy onboard chip works in 5.1 mode out-of-the box... :-(

Cheers,
   S.