sound subsystem

[Bill Nottingham]

Havoc Pennington (hp at redhat.com) said: 
> On Sun, 2004-05-30 at 23:36, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > Well.... ALSA by default only lets multiple apps output *up to the
> > number of HW channels the card has*.
> 
> I've been told that all interesting cards have at least 2 channels
> (maybe more?)

Not really. Cards are getting dumber, not smarter. Especially
in the boring desktop audio space (think i810_audio.)

> > Doing more requires configuration.
> 
> Configuration we can do by default?

Potentially.

Bill