From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Patrick Shirkey Subject: Re: multiple devices per card? Date: Sat, 05 Oct 2002 05:22:51 +0900 Sender: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <3D9DF89B.8090604@boosthardware.com> References: <20021004193614.30552.qmail@web11503.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Errors-To: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: To: Guilhem Tardy Cc: alsa-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org Guilhem Tardy wrote: > Hi, > > I am unsure what makes the most sense for multiple pcm channels on the same > card: > a) N devices, 1 pcm channel each > b) 1 device, N pcm channels each > > In the same vein, is the mixer always one per card? > well if we have hw:0,0 hw:0,1 hw:0,2 Then it looks like option b to me. But Jaroslav confused me recently by saying something that sounded like a is the case. -- Patrick Shirkey - Boost Hardware Ltd. For the discerning hardware connoisseur Http://www.boosthardware.com Http://www.djcj.org - The Linux Audio Users guide ======================================== "Um...symbol_get and symbol_put... They're kindof like does anyone remember like get_symbol and put_symbol I think we used to have..." - Rusty Russell in his talk on the module subsystem ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf