> > P.S. What about Yamaha/Intel 753 chip that is found in the Toshiba > > Satellite 5005's? > > All yamaha 75x should be supported with the alsa 'ymfpci' driver.
Yes, but does it include hardware mixing? I do not mean to be hammering this issue into the ground, but Linux OS as an audio workstation solution has been around for 3 years now, yet the only soundcard I am aware of that is capable of doing hardware mixing is SBLive!, and even that one is due to fact that Creative had their hands in the driver devel. So my question is since this problem of not being able to open /dev/dsp (or audio or whatever you desire to call it) more than once (i.e. only one app can "hog" the audio at one time) is the case with most of the Linux audio hardware, why is there no solution as of yet to have a kernel-implemented software mixing of multiple audio streams, so that the soundcard can be queued from multiple apps/processes? (I am mentioning kernel implementation, since my guess is that it would provide better latencies for such stuff) I am involved heavily in electroacoustic and multimedia projects/composition and am a huge Linux enthusiast, but am seriously growing tired of this roadblock which I have to worry constantly about when working on my project(s)/piece(s). Yes, I know, there are some efforts of implementing workarounds for this, but none of them are universal: *There is esd, which is outdated and simply crappy. *There is artsd, which is better, but not good enough, and again, the app must be made to be aware of it in order to utilize it. *There is JACK project which has a huge potential but none of its effects are again universal, nor backwards-compatible with already released software. *There is Gstreamer, but I do not honestly know enough about it. I am sure there are more. Yet, no viable solution has been provided despite the fact that even Beos had this solved, needless to mention Mac and Win os's which do this flawlessly. So my final question is, is there even any effort being put into solving this issue in an universal fashion where software mixer would be transparently intercepting calls to dsp resources (both input and output) and made them available to any process that requested access to them, mixing audio output audio streams as needed, while dispatching audio input streams to as many processes that required input stream? Now that Alsa has become "default" kernel driver, we should definitely try to use the opportunity to finally provide this rudimentary, yet extremely important aspect of audio system. I overheard that the new 2.5.x kernels have multiplexing feature (which I am guessing enables sharing of the dev resources -- please correct me if I am wrong), if so, will this solve this issue? Any thoughts/news on this issue would be utmostly appreciated! Sincerely, Ico _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
