Hi all! I have an Dell Inspiron 8K and my question is whether the current Maestro M3 chip is fully supported or does it currently only furnish SB16 compatibility mode (I might be talking nonsense here, but this is what I heard a while ago, or something like it and my understanding is that the current driver support is only partial due to incomplete disclosure of the hw specs by the ESS, again, please correct me if I am wrong). Basically, from my understanding it seems that the M3 soundcard is being classified as a "sound accelerator" (whatever that means), and as such I would expect it to be capable of mixing audio streams in hardware (just as emu10k1 chip does, even though emu10k1 is much more powerful). So far, I was only able to get one stream out of the card in the latest ALSA driver, while I got 2 streams with the OSS-Free drivers (third stream would garble the two existing streams and return an i/o error).
So, is this the default behavior? I would assume that most of the modern-day cards should be capable of down-mixing at least 16 or 32 streams of sound, since that is what they are usually capable of reproducing in Windows at any given time (unless in Windows the down-mixing is done in software, which is certainly a possibility and in many cases a known fact). So, my questions are: Is this a hardware limitation? or Is this current driver's limitation? If the second is the case, then what are the chances of improving this issue in the nearby future? Finally, what are the chances of getting the ESS to talk and give us the exact specs for this soundcard so that the driver can be finished? Any help would be greatly appreciated! Ivica Ico Bukvic, composer, multimedia sculptor, programmer, webmaster & computer consultant http://meowing.ccm.uc.edu/~ico/ ============================ "To be is to do" - Socrates "To do is to be" - Sartre "Do be do be do" - Sinatra "I am" - God _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-devel
