On Jun 25 2007 14:31, Takashi Iwai wrote: >> It was started in time when most cheap sound cards was without hw mixer. >> And .. when today you use ALSA on sound card without hw mixer still all >> this (past ?) problems are actual. > >Huh? I have no problems with soft mixing...
Diverging from the discussion, how is soft mixing actually done? If it was done in userspace, it would need shared memory, or a back relay from kernelspace to userspace (and back again for the final output), otherwise I could not imagine how all alsa streams came together at one point. Jan -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/