Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261301AbVC2TFP (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Mar 2005 14:05:15 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261308AbVC2TFP (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Mar 2005 14:05:15 -0500 Received: from viper.oldcity.dca.net ([216.158.38.4]:28640 "HELO viper.oldcity.dca.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261301AbVC2TFK (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Mar 2005 14:05:10 -0500 Subject: Re: Mac mini sound woes From: Lee Revell To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: Takashi Iwai , Linux Kernel list In-Reply-To: <1112094290.6577.19.camel@gaston> References: <1111966920.5409.27.camel@gaston> <1112067369.19014.24.camel@mindpipe> <1112094290.6577.19.camel@gaston> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 14:05:08 -0500 Message-Id: <1112123109.4922.3.camel@mindpipe> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.1.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 934 Lines: 21 On Tue, 2005-03-29 at 21:04 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > Can the driver advertize in some way what it can do ? depending on the > machine we are running on, it will or will not be able to do HW volume > control... You probably don't want to use softvol in the former case... > > dmix by default would be nice though :) No, there's still no way to ask the driver whether hardware mixing is supported yet. It's come up on alsa-devel before. Patches are welcome. dmix by default would not be nice as users who have sound cards that can do hardware mixing would be annoyed. However, in the upcoming 1.0.9 release softvol will be used by default for all the mobo chipsets. Lee - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/