> The trident cards can also do this. I believe that all cards that are > actually capable of doing this and for which the docs have been > provided have ALSA drivers that support it.
Well that's exactly where lies the problem. Most of the laptop soundcards have marginal Alsa (and for that matter OSS) support. The only ones that I am aware of so far of being able to do multiple hardware streams in Linux are es1969 (thanks to Patrick Shirkey) and Trident that you have mentioned (although I am not sure what model and in what laptop), and possibly Yamaha chipset. That is rather sparse choice and usually laptops that utilize these are either outdated or have other peripherals weak (i.e. marginal video card). > Windows (WDM): i don't know. WDM is good, since Sonar claims sub-7 ms latencies on average sound hardware in XP right out of the box. > They don't do it flawlessly. It works for many simple cases. ASIO, > which until WDM showed up was by far the preferred driver API for > audio, doesn't allow device sharing at all AFAIK. I agree, my "flawless" statement was certainly overrated. Yet, the question remains: what am I to do as a musician needing to utilize my portable laptop while the apps/software I currently use get ported to the JACK architecture (if they get ported at all)? Please don't get me wrong, I do like to do programming, and I am about to join JACK community. Yet, I need to continue "churning" music as well in order to finish my degree. Programming alone will not get me there, although I love Linux for what it is, and would love to contribute as much as my time allows. > don't consider it so rudimentary. you think of it as basic because > Windows and MacOS did it, but they did it at the expense of > low latency use. When Apple finally fixed this (with CoreAudio), they > have forced not only a completely new API but for many people > (non-ASIO developers), a whole new design on their developer community. Well, what if we had at least a temporary, even higher-latency solution, so that I could at least get some work done without worrying about these serious software limitations and trying to come-up with poor and temporary work-arounds? Thanks for your insightful comments! Sincerely, Ico _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-devel
