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  1. 08-31-2009, 10:10 AM #1
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    Default ALSA 1.0.21 Released With Many Driver Updates

    Phoronix: ALSA 1.0.21 Released With Many Driver Updates

    With it being a few months since the release of ALSA 1.0.20, it's now time for the ALSA 1.0.21 update. The ALSA driver package update (finally) brings the Creative X-Fi Linux driver officially along with a horde of updates to the other drivers and more. The Creative X-Fi driver for the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture has improved a fair amount over the past few months and is certainly better than Creative's binary driver mess before they gave into open-source...

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    The Oxygen driver supports the Xonar Essence ST. How about the STX, which is the PCI-E version of the Essence ST ?
    I guess it's probably the same, but some PCI IDs can prevent the driver from working with the STX while working with the ST (although that the ST is slightly different from STX, but not on the processor side).

    If anyone knows...

    EDIT : sorry, found the Essence STX listed in the alsa "supported cards" matrix. This means that the STX is supported.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Fixxer_Linux View Post
    The Oxygen driver supports the Xonar Essence ST. How about the STX, which is the PCI-E version of the Essence ST ?
    I guess it's probably the same, but some PCI IDs can prevent the driver from working with the STX while working with the ST (although that the ST is slightly different from STX, but not on the processor side).

    If anyone knows...

    EDIT : sorry, found the Essence STX listed in the alsa "supported cards" matrix. This means that the STX is supported.
    The STX has been supported since 1.0.20 IIRC.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Fixxer_Linux View Post
    The Oxygen driver supports the Xonar Essence ST. How about the STX, which is the PCI-E version of the Essence ST ?
    I guess it's probably the same, but some PCI IDs can prevent the driver from working with the STX while working with the ST (although that the ST is slightly different from STX, but not on the processor side).

    If anyone knows...

    EDIT : sorry, found the Essence STX listed in the alsa "supported cards" matrix. This means that the STX is supported.
    The PCI-X interface is different since you have to handle latencies differently. So it's not the same driver.
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  5. 08-31-2009, 11:55 AM #5
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    Quote Originally Posted by n0nsense View Post
    The PCI-X interface is different since you have to handle latencies differently. So it's not the same driver.
    It's a PCIe card not PCI-X. I haven't seen a PCI-X soundcard in many years.
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  6. 09-01-2009, 02:48 AM #6
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    Quote Originally Posted by deanjo View Post
    It's a PCIe card not PCI-X. I haven't seen a PCI-X soundcard in many years.
    Sure
    need to pay attention that what i write is actually what i mean
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    The PCI-X interface is different since you have to handle latencies differently. So it's not the same driver.
    From the software side, PCI-E devices look just like PCI devices, and in neither case do drivers need to handle latencies.

    In the case of the STX/ST, it is the same driver, and apart from the daughterboard handling, it was just the addition of one PCI ID.
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    Will this be in Karmic ??
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    Quote Originally Posted by bugmenot View Post
    Will this be in Karmic ??
    Probably yes since we have about two months till Karmic Koala is released.
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  10. 09-03-2009, 04:13 AM #10
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    Actually, probably not, since Feature Freeze is in place: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FeatureFreeze

    (It's funny how I'm answering this with the same username :P)
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