From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Brendan Pike Subject: Re: How much of the X-Fi (emu20k1) chip has Creative documented? Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 09:26:55 -0500 Message-ID: <20100124092655.18d6a92c@darius> References: <20100123174104.5dbac1a3@darius> <880778.92550.qm@web52906.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail.spykes.net (dsl.spykes.net [76.10.173.13]) by alsa0.perex.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C698103820 for ; Sun, 24 Jan 2010 15:26:58 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org Errors-To: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org To: Chris Rankin Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org On Sun, 24 Jan 2010 11:28:13 +0100 Takashi Iwai wrote: > At Sat, 23 Jan 2010 14:46:37 -0800 (PST), > Chris Rankin wrote: > > > > --- On Sat, 23/1/10, Brendan Pike wrote: > > > I'm 100% sure that HwMix is supported. When I said direct > > > hardware access I meant it. I'm sure anyone else with an XFi card > > > can confirm this too. > > > > That's just it - someone on Phoronix is saying that it isn't supported: > > http://www.phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?t=21486 > > > > "Just as a FYI multi voice hardware mixing is not present in the linux x-fi drivers." > > > > That post is dated 17th Jan 2010. > > It's a wrong information. > > > Takashi X-Fi is such a generic term these days with Creative. There are non emu20k1/2 based X-Fi's that do NOT support HWMix. The Phoronix post was probably referring to those cards and thinking it applies to all of them as a result. Just a peek in the source code would show you that the hardware SRC is supported.