Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [2.6 patch] schedule obsolete OSS drivers for removal | From | Lee Revell <> | Date | Mon, 09 Jan 2006 10:18:13 -0500 |
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On Mon, 2006-01-09 at 16:22 +0200, Ville Herva wrote: > On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 08:52:11AM -0500, you [Lee Revell] wrote: > > > > Sure, we'd like the bug report. > > I will try to come up with one. > > > I just wanted to point out that many people who tell everyone that "ALSA > > sucks" like you and JWZ, have really just made the mistake of buying > > bleeding edge barely-supported hardware. > > Yes. > > I'll happily admit I definetely made just that mistake. > > Before I bought the new card, I did some quick asking around, and heard that > M-Audio was supposedly good. I just wanted better sound quality than the > integrated I815 sound (shouldn't be much to ask), and preferably HW mixing. > I checked that revo7.1 was supported, but when I went to the reseller, they > were out of stock for that one. So I made a quick and unconsidered decision > to buy revo5.1 instead. > > So it was definetely bad research on my part. > > But I still maintain that the asoundrc required for swmixing is not as > trivial as "just works". It wasn't even with i815 audio.
Since ALSA 1.0.9 (alsa-lib and alsa-driver > 1.0.9 required) no special configuration is required to get software mixing to work for i815 (and other chipsets which lack hardware mixing), with a few exception like ICE1712 and ICE1724 where a more complex configuration was required due to hardware restrictions.
You should never have to touch an .asoundrc file to get software mixing to work, if you do it's a bug.
Lee
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