[alsa-devel] Testers wanted: New SB X-Fi driver

[Takashi Iwai]

At Tue, 19 May 2009 17:09:05 +0200,
Patryk Kowalczyk wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 18 May 2009 21:42:45 -0500
> William Pitcock <nenolod at sacredspiral.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On Mon, 2009-05-18 at 08:06 +0200, wodor at wodor.org wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > When this driver will support USB X-Fi Surround 5.1 ?
> > 
> > Never.  That would be supported by snd-usb-audio.
> > 
> > William
> > 
> > 
> Hi,
> 
> So. When will snd-usb-audio support channels clonning or some mixer
> for this sound card? Now I`m clonning channels by alsa plugins but it`s
> taking much CPU time. 

I don't think the hardware does such a thing.
Almost all usb-audio devices don't do any fancy effects or channel
setups.  They are mostly a dumb playback / recording device.
All other effects are implemented in software secretly.


Takashi