Re: [Alsa-devel] plughw or hw?

2001-12-17 Thread Paul Davis
I think that it's nonsense to force average users to study the alsa driver architecture and learn a format of the configuration file (they just don't know about the existence of such file) to average users have 1 sound card. default will work for them. perform such trivial task as to point the

Re: [Alsa-devel] plughw or hw?

2001-12-17 Thread Jozef Kosoru
I think that it's nonsense to force average users to study the alsa driver architecture and learn a format of the configuration file (they just don't know about the existence of such file) to average users have 1 sound card. default will work for them. NO! I mean average user from a

Re: [Alsa-devel] plughw or hw?

2001-12-16 Thread Paul Davis
What is a difference between an ASCII identifier plughw:0,0 and hw:0,0? And what the output of 'aplay -L' means? a hw device is totally constrained by the hardware characteristics of the underlying audio interface. if the device has 26 channels, then it must be used with 26 channels; if it only

Re: [Alsa-devel] plughw or hw?

2001-12-16 Thread Vladimir Dergachev
On Sun, 16 Dec 2001, Paul Davis wrote: What is a difference between an ASCII identifier plughw:0,0 and hw:0,0? And what the output of 'aplay -L' means? a hw device is totally constrained by the hardware characteristics of the underlying audio interface. if the device has 26 channels,