Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: What does the data stream to a sound card look like?

2011-05-29 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Nikos and Florian. Thanks for the helpful elucidation. -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 04:13:18PM +0200, Florian Philipp wrote: Am 28.05.2011 12:19, schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: On 05/28/2011 12:50 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: Hi, Gentoo. It occurred to

[gentoo-user] Re: OT: What does the data stream to a sound card look like?

2011-05-28 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 05/28/2011 12:50 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: Hi, Gentoo. It occurred to me the other day that I am clueless about how a sound card works. How do the data get into it? Does the sound card use an interrupt to ask for more data? The data is placed in RAM. The card reads it from there using a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: What does the data stream to a sound card look like?

2011-05-28 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 28.05.2011 12:19, schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: On 05/28/2011 12:50 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: Hi, Gentoo. It occurred to me the other day that I am clueless about how a sound card works. How do the data get into it? Does the sound card use an interrupt to ask for more data? The data is