On Sun, 24 Jan 2010 11:28:13 +0100 Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de wrote:
At Sat, 23 Jan 2010 14:46:37 -0800 (PST), Chris Rankin wrote:
--- On Sat, 23/1/10, Brendan Pike spike@spykes.net wrote:
I'm 100% sure that HwMix is supported. When I said direct hardware access I meant it. I'm sure anyone else with an XFi card can confirm this too.
That's just it - someone on Phoronix is saying that it isn't supported: http://www.phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?t=21486
"Just as a FYI multi voice hardware mixing is not present in the linux x-fi drivers."
That post is dated 17th Jan 2010.
It's a wrong information.
Takashi
X-Fi is such a generic term these days with Creative. There are non emu20k1/2 based X-Fi's that do NOT support HWMix. The Phoronix post was probably referring to those cards and thinking it applies to all of them as a result.
Just a peek in the source code would show you that the hardware SRC is supported.