On Thursday 13 September 2007, Clemens Ladisch wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Wednesday 12 September 2007, Clemens Ladisch wrote: >> > The ADC is still as crappy as in earlier CMI chips, but the CMI8768's >> > DACs have been improved and are as good as other good 16-bit sound >> > cards. >> >> 16 bit. Figures. at a 30 dollar bill, one doesn't get much monotonicity. >> The 24 bit blurb on the box might mean it outputs 24 bits, but one would >> be ahead to just throw away the LSByte & be done with it. > >I wrote 16 bit because that's all that you would be able to get with >the current driver; C-Media's Windows driver doesn't support 24 bits >either. I don't know why, there's evidence that the hardware does >support 24 bits. (I'm currently trying to find the register bit(s) >that would enable it.) > This is all reverse engineered stuff then? No help from c-media? >The SPDIF output, however, _does_ support 24 bits, as long as you don't >use Windows. > > >Regards, >Clemens -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Stone's Law: One man's "simple" is another man's "huh?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
