Hi, Gentoo. It occurred to me the other day that I am clueless about how a sound card works. How do the data get into it? Does the sound card use an interrupt to ask for more data?
What form do the data take? Say I feed an mp3 through the card. Does the Athlon do the decompression, or does the sound card do it? Last of all, is there a command line program which can play a CD by feeding its data into the sound card? Thanks for any and all enlightenment. -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
