Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:30:40 +0100 (MET) | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | Subject | Re: [Alsa-devel] RFC: OSS driver removal, a slightly different approach |
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>> >If I understand alsa - oss emulation correctly, I think, this will be not >> >fixed soon (my opinion - never). This is too much work for too little gain. >> >> On that way, I'd like to inquiry something: >> I have a card that works with the snd-cs46xx module. >> With the OSS emulation (/dev/dsp), I can only output 2 channels, and the >> other two must be sent to /dev/adsp. Is this intended? Would not it be >> easier to make /dev/dsp allow receiving an ioctl setting 4 channels? > >This is exactly like the case of emu10k1. The chip supports only >2-channel stereo streams. If you need a 4-channel interleaved stream, >you have to merge the data in two individual streams to a single >4-channel stream on software. Currently, this isn't handled in ALSA >kernel-space OSS emulation.
Ah, so http://alphagate.hopto.org/quad_dsp/ which I had created is The Right Thing?
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