pure frustration

[Gregory Nowak]

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On Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 11:15:32PM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> I hope this is not the case but you could have a hardware problem.  The 
> newer sound cards are multi-channel sound cards.  A multi-channel card 
> should be able to play music and have software speech going at the same 
> time.  The older sound cards were single channel and could only handle a 
> single task at any given time.  Now if you had speech and music going when 
> that was a windows machine, then it's likely a software problem and may 
> need you to adjust settings on your sound card; 

First, how about defining newer and older in this context? The machine
I'm currently typing on was built 3 years ago, and it has a via82xx
on-board card, which isn't capable of hardware mixing, thus can only
play one audio source at a time. A friend of mine built his machine
about 2 years ago, and that box also has a i810 on-board card in it,
which can't mix in hardware either. Three or even two years is a
while, but I still consider my machine to be fairly new, when compared
to a box I have here which has a pentium 133 Mhz cpu, with 64 Mb of
ram for example, and which is roughly 10 years old.

Second, if a sound card was able to play multiple sources in windows,
but not in gnu/linux, all that really could tell you for sure is just
that, the sound card can play multiple sources in windows, but not in
gnu/linux. While a software problem is not of the question, the cause
for explaining the difference in behavior most likely lies in the fact
that the windows drivers mix in software, and that the gnu/linux card
drivers haven't been setup to do this.

Greg



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