Sagi Bashari wrote: > This is what I get: > > [sagi@beep pcm0p]$ cat info > card: 0 > device: 0 > subdevice: 0 > stream: PLAYBACK > id: CS46xx > name: CS46xx > subname: subdevice #0 > class: 0 > subclass: 0 > subdevices_count: 1 > subdevices_avail: 1 > [sagi@beep pcm0p]$ > >> >> >> As you can see, my old sound card can only handle one stream at once >> in hardware. Alsa does not do any software mixing. >> I also have a SB Live in another machine, the subdevices_avail is then >> 32 because the SB Live can handle 32 streams at once in hardware. > > > > Yes, that's the strange thing. According to the output it only supports > 1 subdevice, but the soundcard matrix says it does support hardware > mixing (and I know that it does, it works perfectly on other OSs). > > Does this mean that there's no real ALSA support for the Hardware mixing > using this chip? If yes, why is it listed in the website with this option? >
It's there because the author of the driver wrote to me and told me it has support. It could be that your version of the card has something funky going on. >> >> >> There are other applications/tools you can use, one of which is "JACK" >> that allows for multiple audio streams mixed in software and lots of >> other cool stuff. > > > I used ARTS until now. But I don't want to use software mixing. The > latency is bad and it eats CPU for nothing, why use it when you have > hardware support? > -- Patrick Shirkey - Boost Hardware Ltd. For the discerning hardware connoisseur Http://www.boosthardware.com Http://www.djcj.org - The Linux Audio Users guide ======================================== "Um...symbol_get and symbol_put... They're kindof like does anyone remember like get_symbol and put_symbol I think we used to have..." - Rusty Russell in his talk on the module subsystem ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-devel
