On Fri, 2006-07-21 at 09:20 +0100, Andrew Lyon wrote: > spdif output and hardware mixing including spdif is a must, I have > purchased a couple of systems in the past year which appeared (from > reading the alsa soundcard matrix) to be fully supported by alsa, but > I had problems with broken spdif output, lack of hardware mixer etc. > VIA makes the only onboard chipset that supports hardware mixing. All HDA intel stuff has no hardware mixing. I'm not sure if there are any devices that support hardware mixing via SPDIF. (Lack of hardware mixer is a hardware limitation not an ALSA bug) Lee
