-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Just to add to this, I have another machine here that was built in late '98, or early '99, but that has a Yamaha YMF-724 on-board card, which can mix in hardware, and does so in fact. So, new or old has no bearing here, and shouldn't be used as a qualification for determining if a card x can mix in hardware or not. Greg On Sun, Oct 09, 2005 at 10:28:39AM -0500, Gregory Nowak wrote: > On Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 11:15:32PM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > > I hope this is not the case but you could have a hardware problem. The > > newer sound cards are multi-channel sound cards. A multi-channel card > > should be able to play music and have software speech going at the same > > time. The older sound cards were single channel and could only handle a > > single task at any given time. Now if you had speech and music going when > > that was a windows machine, then it's likely a software problem and may > > need you to adjust settings on your sound card; > > First, how about defining newer and older in this context? The machine > I'm currently typing on was built 3 years ago, and it has a via82xx > on-board card, which isn't capable of hardware mixing, thus can only > play one audio source at a time. A friend of mine built his machine > about 2 years ago, and that box also has a i810 on-board card in it, > which can't mix in hardware either. Three or even two years is a > while, but I still consider my machine to be fairly new, when compared > to a box I have here which has a pentium 133 Mhz cpu, with 64 Mb of > ram for example, and which is roughly 10 years old. > > Second, if a sound card was able to play multiple sources in windows, > but not in gnu/linux, all that really could tell you for sure is just > that, the sound card can play multiple sources in windows, but not in > gnu/linux. While a software problem is not of the question, the cause > for explaining the difference in behavior most likely lies in the fact > that the windows drivers mix in software, and that the gnu/linux card > drivers haven't been setup to do this. > > Greg > > > > -- > web site: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org > gpg public key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc > skype: gregn1 > (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) > > -- > Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > !DSPAM:43493772306701043522727! > > - -- web site: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org gpg public key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc skype: gregn1 (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) - -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDST/17s9z/XlyUyARAvl5AJ4pDQZpa/3R9hjs8pjXbp2YpSQ01gCeOnK/ yIlGYo15EtTVRMxqblRCwc0= =ERmG -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
