>> i have this card, and as i posted on lau, it does not support multi open.
>> but my ymf744b card does.  if you "cat /proc/asound/card?/pcm?p/info" you
>> can see how many h/w playback streams you have by looking at
>> subdevices_count.  subdevices_count = 1 on the audiophile (ice1712), and
>> 32 on the main pcm of the ymf744b.
>
>So is this really the only driver that supports multiple output streams?

no. as mentioned, the trident-based cards do this as well.

>Yeah, you're right :-) It would be more transparent for applications,
>though (they wouldn't need to have special esd- or arts-support).

apps don't need esd-support now. they just need LD_PREOPEN set in the
environment in which they are started. i am not familiar with the way
that artsd works, but i imagine its similar.

--p

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