> It's a real bummer. The onboard sound is better then my old sound > card (scary thought), but it doesn't want to play nice with more then > one > app at a time. Curses! >
AC'97 never had hardware mixing. It's takes a real DSP for that to occur. Some sound servers support software mixing and some don't. I *think* Arts does, but that's depreciated (some will argue I'm worng on that statement). Newer sound cards do have hardware mixing, but they don't come cheap. Some sound better - Turtle Beach Santa Cruz, M-Audio Revolution 7.1, but may not work for all your applications. Some work for most things - Sound Blaster Audigy2, but don't sound so great. And there are some - Audiotrak Maya 5.1 MK II, that use the same dsp as more expensive cards - M-Audio Revolution 7.1, but a much less expensive AC'97 codec (VIA) that might provide hardware mixing and may sound ok. But I've not played with that ard yet. Bob - -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
