On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 11:08:15PM +0000, Jacob Meuser wrote: > On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 04:50:54PM -0500, Ted Unangst wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 4:39 PM, Jacob Meuser <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 09:29:37PM +0000, Jacob Meuser wrote: > > >> this was deep into another thread, so I'm reposting so it will be seen > > >> by more people (hopefully). > > >> > > >> so azalia users please let your voice be heard. would you find it > > >> annoying > > >> when playing *only* mono or stereo to have all outputs play the audio, > > >> or would you like that? > > > > > > let me clarify a little. the output jacks would still be mutable as > > > they are now, but they would be getting the mono or stereo stream. > > > > I'd find it surprising that suddenly playing something on the back > > channels changes where front channel audio goes. > > well, it doesn't really change that. if there is different front and > rear output, that would imply two dacs are in use, and this wouldn't > be applied in that case. > > > This does not match > > my experience with other stereo equipment, where one must always > > request 4 or 6 channel stereo. > > from what I've seen, there is usually an option to "spread" stereo > input across all channels. this is pretty much what would be > happening. I could make this optional through a mixer control, but > it could only be changed when the device is not open for playing/ > recoding.
and going back to azalia.c r1.52, what was in 4.4-release, all dacs were getting the first channel(s) when < 2 were being played, so this would match the behaviour of 4.4-release. I don't recall anyone complaining about output on all channels. -- [email protected] SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org
