On 14-Dec-2005 13:07.17 (GMT), Peter Zubaj wrote: > > > passes all audio to the device. Which is what we should be doing in > > > Linux too. The audio situation without something like dmix arbitration > > > is just horrific. > > But does dmix downmix when using a card that does support hardware > > mixing, e.g. emu10k1? In that case it would just be burning cycles > > unnecessarily. > dmix is not used on emu10k1 No, it's not. But if we were forced to push everything through dmix as a layer of arbitration, then it would be used. > > Plus if dmix was pushing through a channel that had an EAX filter on it > > would apply it to all audio output. > There is no EAX on linux and emu10k1. EAX is a series of bytecode compiled modules that can be built with as10k1 and loaded onto the emu10k1 with the ld10k1 tool. See http://emu10k1.sourceforge.net/as10k1-manual/index.html and (discontinued here but I think it's been continued elsewhere) http://ld10k1.sourceforge.net/ pages for details. -- rob andrews rob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
