Re: [Alsa-user] just an idea

2006-05-22 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Lee Revell wrote: > On Mon, 2006-05-22 at 14:15 +0100, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: >> The ca0106 is perfectly well supported in Linux. I have the datasheets >> for it. The problem is that the card is so basic. It has no DSP or >> hardware mixing. > > Yeah, sorry, I should have been clearer. Wh

Re: [Alsa-user] just an idea

2006-05-22 Thread Lee Revell
On Mon, 2006-05-22 at 14:15 +0100, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: > The ca0106 is perfectly well supported in Linux. I have the datasheets > for it. The problem is that the card is so basic. It has no DSP or > hardware mixing. Yeah, sorry, I should have been clearer. What I was trying to say is t

Re: [Alsa-user] just an idea

2006-05-22 Thread Frank Barknecht
Hallo, Sergei Steshenko hat gesagt: // Sergei Steshenko wrote: > On Mon, 22 May 2006 13:01:46 +0200 > > And besides: In the audio world there are a lot of alternative sound > > cards which have open source drivers and often even superior > > performance. There's no reason to buy other hardware. >

Re: [Alsa-user] just an idea

2006-05-22 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Mon, 22 May 2006 03:59:27 -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > > On Mon, 2006-05-22 at 07:30 +0200, Peter Zubaj wrote: > > On Mon, 2006-05-22 at 07:13 +0200, Ron Smits wrote: > > > > There are more and more soundcards like ca0106 (near all new). ALSA > > should emulate features which card doesn't have (

Re: [Alsa-user] just an idea

2006-05-22 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Ron Smits wrote: Speaking as a (rather purist) sound engineer, I'd say that's sort of a contradiction. If the material you listen to was produced for two speakers, then using more than two will in general not deliver great sound. It will either completely blurr the sound image you would have with

Re: [Alsa-user] just an idea

2006-05-22 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Lee Revell wrote: On Mon, 2006-05-22 at 00:33 +0200, Ron Smits wrote: Evening all A few weeks ago my trusty emul10k1 card died. I loved that card. I especially loved the fact that whatever I threw at it, all my speakers from my 5.1 set would work. Now I have a soundblaster live! 24bits the

Re: [Alsa-user] just an idea

2006-05-22 Thread Sergei Steshenko
On Mon, 22 May 2006 13:01:46 +0200 Frank Barknecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hallo, > Lee Revell hat gesagt: // Lee Revell wrote: > > > On Mon, 2006-05-22 at 03:07 +0300, Sergei Steshenko wrote: > > > 1) Linux end users appear to happily depend on NDISWRAPPER -> Windows > > > drives for their

Re: [Alsa-user] just an idea

2006-05-22 Thread Frank Barknecht
Hallo, Lee Revell hat gesagt: // Lee Revell wrote: > On Mon, 2006-05-22 at 03:07 +0300, Sergei Steshenko wrote: > > 1) Linux end users appear to happily depend on NDISWRAPPER -> Windows > > drives for their wireless needs; > > > > No. Period. It's not going to happen. Linux cannot be at the m

Re: [Alsa-user] just an idea

2006-05-22 Thread Lee Revell
On Mon, 2006-05-22 at 07:30 +0200, Peter Zubaj wrote: > On Mon, 2006-05-22 at 07:13 +0200, Ron Smits wrote: > > There are more and more soundcards like ca0106 (near all new). ALSA > should emulate features which card doesn't have (if user want to do > this) in software and I don't think .asoundrc

Re: [Alsa-user] just an idea

2006-05-21 Thread Peter Zubaj
On Mon, 2006-05-22 at 07:13 +0200, Ron Smits wrote: There are more and more soundcards like ca0106 (near all new). ALSA should emulate features which card doesn't have (if user want to do this) in software and I don't think .asoundrc is good for average user. Peter Zubaj > > I am not a soundeng

Re: [Alsa-user] just an idea

2006-05-21 Thread Ron Smits
> Speaking as a (rather purist) sound engineer, I'd say that's > sort of a contradiction. If the material you listen to was > produced for two speakers, then using more than two will > in general not deliver great sound. It will either completely > blurr the sound image you would have with two spea

Re: [Alsa-user] just an idea

2006-05-21 Thread Lee Revell
On Mon, 2006-05-22 at 03:07 +0300, Sergei Steshenko wrote: > 1) Linux end users appear to happily depend on NDISWRAPPER -> Windows > drives for their wireless needs; > No. Period. It's not going to happen. Linux cannot be at the mercy of proprietary vendor drivers. Ndiswrapper is a last resor

Re: [Alsa-user] just an idea

2006-05-21 Thread Sergei Steshenko
On Sun, 21 May 2006 19:45:53 -0400 Lee Revell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2006-05-22 at 02:39 +0300, Sergei Steshenko wrote: > > > > > > The ca0106 is to the emu10k1 as a Winmodem is to a real modem. It's > > > barely supported and we have no good docs on it. > > > > > > > Is it possi

Re: [Alsa-user] just an idea

2006-05-21 Thread Lee Revell
On Mon, 2006-05-22 at 02:39 +0300, Sergei Steshenko wrote: > > > > The ca0106 is to the emu10k1 as a Winmodem is to a real modem. It's > > barely supported and we have no good docs on it. > > > > Is it possible to write NDISWRAPPER-like application for > soundcards ? > That's no solution, it'

Re: [Alsa-user] just an idea

2006-05-21 Thread Sergei Steshenko
> > The ca0106 is to the emu10k1 as a Winmodem is to a real modem. It's > barely supported and we have no good docs on it. > Is it possible to write NDISWRAPPER-like application for soundcards ? --- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to

Re: [Alsa-user] just an idea

2006-05-21 Thread Sergei Steshenko
On Mon, 22 May 2006 01:14:55 +0200 fons adriaensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 12:33:46AM +0200, Ron Smits wrote: > > > How hard would it be to make a dialog/druid/wizard thingy > > that would just ask you what speakerset you have and set up > > all the stuff that is need

Re: [Alsa-user] just an idea

2006-05-21 Thread Lee Revell
On Mon, 2006-05-22 at 00:33 +0200, Ron Smits wrote: > Evening all > > A few weeks ago my trusty emul10k1 card died. I loved that card. I > especially loved the fact that whatever I threw at it, all my speakers > from my 5.1 set would work. > > Now I have a soundblaster live! 24bits the ca0106 chi

Re: [Alsa-user] just an idea

2006-05-21 Thread fons adriaensen
On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 12:33:46AM +0200, Ron Smits wrote: > How hard would it be to make a dialog/druid/wizard thingy > that would just ask you what speakerset you have and set up > all the stuff that is needed to have great sound from all > speakers whatever you throw at it? Speaking as a (rath