Re: [Alsa-user] choice of a new soundcard

2008-10-28 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Vedran Miletić wrote: http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/audio/controllers/envy24/ Claims that it has 20-channel, 26-bit wide built in mixer. What does that mean? The chip plays 10 channels in parallel (8 analog, 2 digital) and records 12 channels in parallel (8 analog, 2 digital, 2

Re: [Alsa-user] choice of a new soundcard

2008-10-28 Thread Vedran Miletić
Thanks for clarification. There was a post on a forum (can't remember where) that claimed that Envy24 supported HW mixing, but not in ALSA. So, that means that ALSA already fully supports Envy24 or not? 2008/10/28 Clemens Ladisch [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Vedran Miletić wrote:

Re: [Alsa-user] choice of a new soundcard

2008-10-28 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Tue, 28 Oct 2008 09:44:19 +0100, =?UTF-8?Q?Vedran_Mileti=C4=87?= wrote: Thanks for clarification. There was a post on a forum (can't remember where) that claimed that Envy24 supported HW mixing, but not in ALSA. So, that means that ALSA already fully supports Envy24 or not? Yep. Simply

Re: [Alsa-user] choice of a new soundcard

2008-10-27 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Vedran Miletić wrote: Drivers that support hardware mixing: * snd_emu10k1 - ... * snd_cs46xx - ... * snd_au88x0 - ... * snd_ymfpci - for YMF7xx chips. Like most of the others, has been discontinued and must be bought used. Used on several cards, e.g., Hoontech SoundTrack Digital XG

Re: [Alsa-user] choice of a new soundcard

2008-10-27 Thread Vedran Miletić
http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/audio/controllers/envy24/ Claims that it has 20-channel, 26-bit wide built in mixer. What does that mean? 2008/10/27 Clemens Ladisch [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Vedran Miletić wrote: Drivers that support hardware mixing: * snd_emu10k1 - ... * snd_cs46xx - ... *

Re: [Alsa-user] choice of a new soundcard

2008-10-26 Thread Vedran Miletić
Drivers that support hardware mixing: * snd_emu10k1 - SB Live! and SB Audigy cards, some E-mu cards. If you want a high quality card, you might look into used 0404 PCI (_new_ revision, old one doesn't work with ALSA), you should be able to get a used one for 60$ since new one is 100$. Also, if you