[linux-audio-user] Re: [Alsa-user] alsa well supported Core 2 Duo/Extreme Motherboard sound?

From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@email-addr-hidden-job.com>
Date: Sat Jul 22 2006 - 23:35:43 EEST

On Fri, 2006-07-21 at 09:20 +0100, Andrew Lyon wrote:
> spdif output and hardware mixing including spdif is a must, I have
> purchased a couple of systems in the past year which appeared (from
> reading the alsa soundcard matrix) to be fully supported by alsa, but
> I had problems with broken spdif output, lack of hardware mixer etc.
>

VIA makes the only onboard chipset that supports hardware mixing. All
HDA intel stuff has no hardware mixing.

I'm not sure if there are any devices that support hardware mixing via
SPDIF.

(Lack of hardware mixer is a hardware limitation not an ALSA bug)

Lee
Received on Sun Jul 23 00:15:04 2006

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