[PD-dev] Really ugly Quattro hack (but works)

[Frank Barknecht]

Hallo,
Tim Blechmann hat gesagt: // Tim Blechmann wrote:

> > (Oh, and there also is this SNDRV_PCM_IOCTL_LINK error, but this
> > probably is another story.)
> 
> well, it is also possible to use only the 4 input channels if you move
> the code from
> 
> if (inchans)
> {
> ...
> }
> 
> to in front of the code 
> 
> if (outchans)
> {
> ...
> }

I don't think, this is necessary, you could also just use "-nodac"
with my first patch, and then you get only inputs, but no outputs.

> i'm not into the alsa api, but isn't is possible to open both in and out
> channels at one time? 

Yes, this is possible, I already did achieve that with Jack and the
Quattro (some time ago, though). I've no idea why the linking fails.

ciao
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 Frank Barknecht                               _ ______footils.org__