On Thu, 26.03.09 20:51, Jens Peters (jpeters7677 at gmx.de) wrote: > > Lennart Poettering wrote: > > I doubt that it would be so useful to expose this in PA anyway. I > > mean, how realistic is it wanting to drive both SPDIF and analog audio > > at the same time from the same sound card? Appears to be a very exotic > > niche usage to me. > > Please don't forget the combination of spdif and headphones. I'm quite sure > I won't be the only one using spdif for "normal" audio listening and > simultaneously a headphone for voip stuff. This might actually be a valid point. However, as mentioned it's a bit hard to detect these cases and distuingish them from cards that do hw mixing. If ALSA would give us a bit of a hint here we could certainly add this. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net ICQ# 11060553 http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4