[elrepo-devel] ctxfi now in alsa-1.0.21

[Phil Perry]

Phil Perry wrote:
> Alan Bartlett wrote:
>> On 08/09/2009, Phil Perry <phil at elrepo.org> wrote:
>>
>>>  I'm currently in the process of updating alsa to 1.0.21 and notice that
>>>  the Creative Technology X-Fi sound card (ctxfi) is now natively
>>>  supported as snd-ctxfi.ko in alsa.
>>>
>>>  Do we want to deprecate kmod-ctxfi in favour of a new kmod-alsa, and if
>>>  so should I add an Obsoletes to the package?
>>>
>>>  I'm not aware of the history of the kmod-ctxfi package.
>> Phil,
>>
>> Thanks for the information. An "Obsoletes" is a good idea. Please
>> proceed as you think fit.
>>
>> The original kmod-ctxfi package was created as a result of a user
>> request made via a CentOS forum post in 2008 (iirc).
>>
> 
> OK, thanks Alan.
> 
> However, we have a problem. When building the module I see the following 
> warning:
> 
>    Building modules, stage 2.
>    MODPOST
> WARNING: "try_to_del_timer_sync" 
> [/usr/src/buildsys/BUILD/alsa-kmod-1.0.21/_kmod_build_xen/pci/ctxfi/snd-ctxfi.ko] 
> undefined!
> 
> I then see the same warning when installing the kmod (although it does 
> install), but get a fatal error trying to modprobe the snd-ctxfi module 
> again warning of the unknown symbol.
> 

OK, I patched it to make the warning go away.

Just done a quick rebuild and test, and the module now inserts into the 
kernel fine for me. Can't actually test it works as I don't have the 
hardware.

It's time to take the dog to the beach so I'll rebuild and get these 
packages uploaded for testing later today. I'd appreciate if as many 
people as possible could briefly test this package even if sound is 
currently working fine - just a quick test that sound continues to work 
as expected should suffice. I can test both x86_64 and i686 packages, 
but both boxes are hda-intel.

They are built against the 5.4 kernel (I had some problems building 
against 5.3 during testing), so if there are no major issues it would be 
good to get this released before the 5.4 clones appear (although there 
doesn't appear to be any kABI breakage)