pure frustration

[Gregory Nowak]

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Just to add to this, I have another machine here that was built in
late '98, or early '99, but that has a Yamaha YMF-724 on-board card,
which can mix in hardware, and does so in fact. So, new or old has no
bearing here, and shouldn't be used as a qualification for determining
if a card x can mix in hardware or not.

Greg


On Sun, Oct 09, 2005 at 10:28:39AM -0500, Gregory Nowak wrote:
> 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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