From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Clemens Ladisch Subject: Re: Using the timer Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 13:57:58 +0200 Message-ID: <4E7B22C6.5030600@ladisch.de> References: <4E79ECAB.5030904@ladisch.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from out2.smtp.messagingengine.com (out2.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.26]) by alsa0.perex.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BDEB24422 for ; Thu, 22 Sep 2011 13:57:31 +0200 (CEST) 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: Ilya Dmitrichenko Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org Ilya Dmitrichenko wrote: > On 21 September 2011 13:54, Clemens Ladisch wrote: > > What hardware timer? > > I meant the clock of the soundcard. The HDSP does have a sample clock, but it cannot be used independently from a running PCM stream. Using this PCM slave timer in the sequencer is possible, but the period length is likely to be much larger than the desired sequencer timestamp granularity. What exactly do you want to do? Regards, Clemens