Hi Takashi,
On Mon, 03 Mar 2003 16:28:11 +0100
Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> wrote:
> At Sat, 1 Mar 2003 23:17:46 +0100,
> Marc Giger wrote:
> >
> > Hi Jaroslav, Hi everyone,
> >
> > I have the following problem with Kernel 2.4.20 and the alsa
> > 0.9.0_rc6 / rc7 drivers:
> >
> > When I try to load the snd-intel8x0 driver I get the message that no
> > such device is installed. But when I first load the kernel i810_audio
> > driver and then unload it again, I can load the snd-intel8x0 without
> > any problems....
>
> this might be due to the detection of modem codec.
> if so, this was fixed on the ALSA cvs. please try ALSA cvs version or
> wait for the next ALSA patchset...
Ok, I will wait..
>
>
> > This happened not with 2.4.19 and alsa < 0.9.0_rc6..
> >
> > Another question:
> >
> > Why can't I play more than one sources on the same time with such a
> > card? All programs which would access /dev/dsp blocks until the other
> > programs frees the device... It isn't very useful.
> >
> > I have no such problems with multiple sources as example on my
> > SBLive or on my yamaha sound card with the snd-ymfpci driver.
> >
> > Do I miss some settings?
>
> no, it's the hardware limitation.
Ok, I see..cheap hardware..
But multiple sources on window$ works..
In this case, windows mixes the sources in software - right?
Is it a big "problem" to do this also in Linux?
This would be an interesting work for me:-)
Perhaps a program as interface between userspace and alsa-driver? Or better directly in the alsa-driver?
Thank you very much!
Marc
>
>
> Takashi
>
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