Re: [Alsa-devel] Re: [linux-audio-user] Soundcard supporting severalaudio streams

2001-11-10 Thread Patrick Shirkey
Josh Green wrote: > > Patrick Shirkey wrote: > > > Abramo Bagnara wrote: > > > > > >> > >>SuSE support was invaluable, its lack for so many months has made > >>everything harder and slower for ALSA. > >> > >> > > > > That is very good news :) > > > > > > Is it?? My understanding from what Ab

Re: [Alsa-devel] Re: [linux-audio-user] Soundcard supporting severalaudio streams

2001-11-10 Thread Josh Green
Patrick Shirkey wrote: > Abramo Bagnara wrote: > >> >>SuSE support was invaluable, its lack for so many months has made >>everything harder and slower for ALSA. >> >> > > That is very good news :) > > Is it?? My understanding from what Abramo said was that SuSE support used to be availab

Re: [Alsa-devel] Re: [linux-audio-user] Soundcard supporting severalaudio streams

2001-11-09 Thread Patrick Shirkey
Abramo Bagnara wrote: > > Paul Davis wrote: > > > > >To be more specific I'm referring to a function(?) called type share as > > >opposed to type hw. PD mentioned last week that Abramo had implemented > > >it a while ago and mentioned that it did this for cards that do not have > > >support for m

Re: [Alsa-devel] Re: [linux-audio-user] Soundcard supporting severalaudio streams

2001-11-08 Thread Paul Davis
>To be more specific I'm referring to a function(?) called type share as >opposed to type hw. PD mentioned last week that Abramo had implemented >it a while ago and mentioned that it did this for cards that do not have >support for multiopen. > >He also said that AFAHK Abramo is the only person wh

Re: [Alsa-devel] Re: [linux-audio-user] Soundcard supporting severalaudio streams

2001-11-08 Thread Abramo Bagnara
Paul Davis wrote: > > >To be more specific I'm referring to a function(?) called type share as > >opposed to type hw. PD mentioned last week that Abramo had implemented > >it a while ago and mentioned that it did this for cards that do not have > >support for multiopen. > > > >He also said that A

Re: [Alsa-devel] Re: [linux-audio-user] Soundcard supporting severalaudio streams

2001-11-08 Thread Paul Davis
>> keep in mind that this is likely to be no more efficient (and possibly >> less) than using esd or artsd. it still involves un-optimized IPC with >> a server process. > >How can you affirm that is a mistery for me: async notification, poll >and shared memory will make the difference (a big diffe