Pulseaudio : lots of issues, how can I help?

Dan Williams dcbw at redhat.com
Mon Sep 15 06:38:46 UTC 2008


On Mon, 2008-09-15 at 01:19 -0500, Callum Lerwick wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-09-15 at 00:33 -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> > "The thing is, hardware mixing is a thing of the past, modern soundcards
> > don't do it anymore. Precisely for doing things like mixing in software
> > SIMD CPU extensions like SSE have been invented. Modern sound cards
> > these days are kind of "dumbed" down, high-quality DACs. They don't do
> > mixing anymore, many modern chips don't even do volume control anymore."
> 
> What, they still make sound cards? Onboard sound is still noisy as hell.
> 
> You can have my Aureal Vortex2 when you pry it from my cold dead hands,
> or whenever they stop making PCI motherboards. (Have they already? I

Not quite yet, but most vendors ship either half-and-half or just one or
two PCI slots, the rest are PCIe.  Absolutely nobody ships AGP any more.

Dan

> haven't even looked. The last system I bought a few years back is an AGP
> system since PCIe was much more expensive for no real gain at the
> time...)
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