From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Lee Revell Subject: Re: ATI IXP hardware mixing Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 11:29:13 -0400 Message-ID: <1158247753.7948.77.camel@mindpipe> References: <1158245895.7948.69.camel@mindpipe> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: alsa-devel-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: alsa-devel-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net To: Zephiris Cc: alsa-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org On Thu, 2006-09-14 at 08:16 -0700, Zephiris wrote: > Lee Revell wrote: > > > On Thu, 2006-09-14 at 07:19 -0700, Zephiris wrote: > >> Since people in ALSA devel channel won't answer, I'll have to ask on > >> mailing-list/newsgroup. I'm trying to get the ATI IXP driver to use > >> hardware mixing. The hardware supports it, FreeBSD and Windows support > >> it, and all I want is to know is what to change in the source that needs > >> to support it, since several glances through the source and brief API > >> docs, as well as mailing lists, etc, don't reveal effectively nothing > >> supporting hardware mixing at all. > > > > How do you know the device is capable of hardware mixing? > > > > Lee > > > > > Other operating systems support hardware mixing on it. FreeBSD reportedly > does, Windows definitely does (yay for hardware acceleration of DS/DS3D, > too; up to 26 streams) and I didn't ask 'if' it does, I asked how to try to > work with hardware mixing in ALSA. Documentation, general walk-through of > the steps required in difference to non-hardware mixed, anything, please? > > I've been getting short-changed on answers so far (and was previously > stonewalled on AU8830 support, back when people in ALSA channels cheerily > claimed you couldn't get hardware mixing on that, either), and it's getting > frustrating. I'm not asking for a lecture on "you can't do that because > it's not status quo", but merely how to implement such changes in the > source code. Um... if the device can't do hardware mixing, how can changing the driver help? Windows and FreeBSD are using software mixing. Lee ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642