Many thanks for this new patch! Now the xrun problems I reported are gone (great!), the SPDIF volume slider works correctly and SPDIF input basically works again.The SPDIF input problems are known (at least to me) and not specific to the xfire card. The main problem is that I dont have enough of technical info about to implement the SPDIF input part. The only answer I got from a developer at Cirrus regarding the SPDIF input part was something like: "yeahh, the SPDIF input needs some special treatments but in this moment I dont remember exactly what" now several months has passed and I have not heard a single word from Cirrus (got no responses to my mails at all anymore ...)
There seems to remain one problem with SPDIF input that wasn't there with rc6: With rc6, SPDIF input got out of sync sometimes. Muting+unmuting SPDIF input solved this problem. With the newest driver+last 2 patches, the SPDIF input sound is very distorted. After loading the alsa driver it sounds very 'robotic' (don't know how to describe it :-)) and high frequency components are missing. After muting+unmuting SPDIF input approx. 10 times SPDIF input gets into another state and there are many high frequency distortions. These distortions (not this pure high freq tone, I don't get this anymore) remain whenever I switch on SPDIF input. I didn't manage to get undistorted SPDIF input (which was possible with rc6). Dis-/reconnetcting the SPDIF input cable didn't help either.
Another issue regarding SPDIF: Digital input works sometimes when I reboot, sometimes it doesn't (restarting alsa doesn't help then) and I have to reboot once again (I don't see a pattern why it does/-not work sometimes). SPDIF input always works when I do a soft reboot from win98, i.e. the card seems to be initialized by the win driver somehow (would some /proc/asound dumps help solving this problem?). Do you have similar problems with your card? Maybe that's terratec xfire specific. Anyone out there with a xfire who can report about SPDIF input with this card?
So, so i am afraid that it wont be better than that for the moment ...
/Benny
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