On Fri, 3 May 2002 12:04:50 -0500 "Jordan Breeding" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello, > > I have a SBLive! currently and love the support in for it in alsa > including the fact that it has multi open on /dev/dsp so that if I run esd > for an app that needs it I can still run xmms in regular oss mode or with > alsa drivers and not worry about the fact that esd is also using /dev/dsp. > I do not like however the actual sound that my SBLive! produces (I never > have) and am thinking of going back to using a Turtle Beach Santa Cruz > (based on the cs46xx). At one point I got to use one of these cards and was > very impressed with the sound quality in Windows and Linux, but at the time > alsa wasn't available as an in kernel driver (2.5.x) and the oss drivers in > the kernel didn't support multi open on /dev/dsp for the cs46xx, so my > question is do the newest alsa drivers for this card (Santa Cruz - cs46xx) > support multi open through both alsa and oss emulation on /dev/dsp? Thanks > for any information. Please Cc: me as I am not on the list. Hi, the current driver does not support multichannel output (quote from the sources): > * We need a DSP code to support multichannel outputs and S/PDIF. > * Unfortunately, it seems that Cirrus Logic, Inc. is not willing > * to provide us sufficient information about the DSP processor, > * so we can't update the driver. There was an experimental DSP image out there but there's nothing left on the FTP (read here: http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0203.0/1304.html) Anyone out there who has these files? Maybe Cirrus wakes up when enough people sends them mails regarding this topic? (They haven't answered mine :() Or maybe somebody is working on encrypting the windows drivers? I don't know... :( Bye
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