[alsa-devel] Multistreaming Playback using Front Panel Headphone with realtek codec

[Raymond Yau]

2011/5/5 Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de>

> At Wed, 4 May 2011 23:42:24 +0800,
> Raymond Yau wrote:
> >
> > Request for testers to test the patch
> >
> > Multistreaming allows you to listen to one audio source through the back
> > panel speakers and a second audio source through front panel headphones
> or
> > speakers.
> >
> > Hardware requirement
> > 1) 10 channels realtek codec (e.g. alc892) which already work with
> > model=auto
> > 2) Headphone at front panel and Line out at rear panel
> >
> > "hw:0,0" is used for the rear panel audio jack
> > "hw:0,2" is used for the front panel headphone when "Independent HP" is
> > switched ON
>
> I'd name it differently, e.g. "Headphone Stream Mode" taking "Slave" and
> "Independent", or such.  An enum with "ON" and "OFF" is no sensible choice.
>
>
> Takashi
>

Use "Independent HP" just because patch_via.c already used it so it is
better to use a standard name for all hda codecs