Re: drivers for dxr3-card

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>]

At Thu, 19 Aug 2004 03:04:58 +0200,
Christian Gmeiner wrote:
> 
> Hi.
> 
> I am very new to alsa, but i want to write a driver for the dxr3 
> (dxr3.sf.net).
> At the moment there is only basic support through a patch for the 
> current cvs. I want
> know to add support for the digital output of the card - dolby digital - 
> and add support
> for ALSA OSS emulation.

You don't need anything special for OSS emulation.  It's a job of ALSA
middle layer.

> So i have a very simple question, does Alsa support mutli-channel cards, 
> e.g. for dolby digital?

Sure :)

> Is there an example/dummy driver for multi-channel audio?

No dummy driver, but you can see different drivers like rme9652,
ice1712, ...  The codes strongly depend on the board/chip design.


Takashi


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