Lee Revell wrote: > On Mon, 2006-10-02 at 10:40 -0700, Bob wrote: >> Okay. But since the OP did not mention a specific sound card I assumed >> that you meant that mixing didn't work until 1.0.9 ... and that it did >> on 1.0.9 and later. I guess the part that I don't get is why the card >> would make a difference ... doesn't alsa just take multiple inputs >> from the sound port and mix them and then output to the card? After >> all, isn't that what a software abstraction layer is for? > > The card matters because some devices handle this mixing themselves, and > it would be inefficient for ALSA to do it also in software. So ALSA > needs to know which cards lack hardware mixing support. > > This was enabled for most cards in 1.0.9 but the ICE1712 and ICE1724 > were overlooked. That clears things up very much. Thank you. Guess I better get an update installed! -- Bob van der Poel ** Wynndel, British Columbia, CANADA ** EMAIL: bvdp@xxxxxxxxxxxx WWW: http://users.xplornet.com/~bvdp ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
