[Gllug] Soundcards with hardware mixing

[Huw Lynes]

On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 16:29:42 +0100
Russell Howe <rhowe at wiss.co.uk> wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 03:52:05PM +0100, Huw Lynes wrote:
> > 
> > Annoyingly creative have discontinued the excellent emu10k1 chipset. We
> > liked it because the OSS drivers for it would take advantage of it's
> > hardware mixing capabilities so you could run several sound sources
> > straight to /dev/dsp without having to deal with software sound mixers
> > like esd or arts.
> >
> > Anyway does anyone know of a soundcard with equivalent functionality?
> 
> No, but take a look at dmix - it's part of ALSA and does mixing of
> multiple streams in the kernel driver itself, which is presumably a
> little more efficient than doing it in a userspace process.
> 
Switching 50 workstations from OSS to ALSA is something I'm trying to avoid.


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