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Date:      Wed, 02 Sep 2009 18:53:49 +0300
From:      Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua>
Cc:        freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: forcing two channel output
Message-ID:  <4A9E950D.2070906@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <4A9E8FEC.7010005@icyb.net.ua>
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Andriy Gapon wrote:
> on 02/09/2009 13:01 Alexander Motin said the following:
>> HDA controllers have limitations on number of data streams. You can see
>> it if boot with hw.snd.verbose=4. Usually there are 4 streams supported.
>> snd_hda allocates them statically now, one device - one data stream. So
>> you just could hit this limitation because of big number of devices. It
>> would be good to allocate streams dynamically on open, but it is not
>> implemented now.
> 
> Is this something that could tweak locally - bump some limit or slightly change
> some logic?

There is hardware limitation on number of streams. But logic is indeed 
could be improved.

> What should I look for in the source code?

Look for sc->num_iss, sc->num_oss and ch->sid.

-- 
Alexander Motin



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