Re: [Alsa-devel] RFC: OSS driver removal, a slightly differentapproach

[Jan Engelhardt]

>> >If I understand alsa - oss emulation correctly, I think, this will be not 
>> >fixed soon (my opinion - never). This is too much work for too little gain.
>> 
>> On that way, I'd like to inquiry something:
>> I have a card that works with the snd-cs46xx module.
>> With the OSS emulation (/dev/dsp), I can only output 2 channels, and the 
>> other two must be sent to /dev/adsp. Is this intended? Would not it be 
>> easier to make /dev/dsp allow receiving an ioctl setting 4 channels?
>
>This is exactly like the case of emu10k1.  The chip supports only
>2-channel stereo streams.  If you need a 4-channel interleaved stream,
>you have to merge the data in two individual streams to a single
>4-channel stream on software.  Currently, this isn't handled in ALSA
>kernel-space OSS emulation.

Ah, so http://alphagate.hopto.org/quad_dsp/ which I had created
is The Right Thing?


Jan Engelhardt
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