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From: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@jcu.cz>
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On Wed, 11 Nov 1998, Andrew Clausen wrote:

> > Thanks in advance.... oh, and there are some DSP's involved, so I suppose
> > that could get tricky.
> 
> What do you mean by DSPs?  AFAIK, ALSA only supports PCM - I don't know that
> you could do effects processing or the like through ALSA.  It would be
> difficult to provide device abstraction...

You can access special features by switch interface (this is universal
communication interface between lowlevel code and application) or via
/proc filesystem...

							Jaroslav

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Jaroslav Kysela <perex@jcu.cz>
Academic Computer Centre, University of South Bohemia
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