Ron Stodden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:
>
> > i'm maybe wrong, but i figure out the /dev/sequencer as a "hardware mixing
> > device", and limited cards [as Sound Blaster 1/2/16 for example] do not
> > have it, whereas better soundcards [as SoundBlaster AWE or Gravis
> > Ultrasound] have.
>
> FYI, SB16 (and all Mandrakes to date) certainly supports
> /dev/sequencer and midi and karaoki playing.
okay, so /dev/sequencer is not an hardware mixing device, because sb16 is
not capable of hardware mixing.
strangely enough, when "xmp" opens up a module and starts to play it on my
Gravis, it opens the /dev/sequencer, loads up the samples in on-board
memory, and then plays it obviously hardware mixed. [or else it would be
completely useless to load the samples into memory]
same test on my Sb AWE32 ; i did not have a sb16 for anymore tests.
Or maybe is this optionally hardware mixing, else software emulated if the
driver provides it..
--
Guillaume Cottenceau
