N900 Hardware Audio Codec: Difference between revisions
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===User=== | |||
The audio codec is driven by pulseaudio, through ALSA. | |||
The ALSA interface is usually not exposed in maemo 5 - adding: | |||
<pre> | |||
pcm.real { | |||
type hw | |||
card 0 | |||
} | |||
ctl.real { | |||
type hw | |||
card 0 | |||
} | |||
</pre> | |||
to /etc/asound.conf enables a hardware device. | |||
Stopping pulseaudio may be required to use this. | |||
===Kernel=== | |||
[[Category:N900 Hardware]] | [[Category:N900 Hardware]] | ||
Revision as of 17:57, 12 August 2010
The Audio codec encodes and decodes audio.
Hardware
The audio codec is a low-power 4 channel codec From TI.
Software
User
The audio codec is driven by pulseaudio, through ALSA. The ALSA interface is usually not exposed in maemo 5 - adding:
pcm.real {
type hw
card 0
}
ctl.real {
type hw
card 0
}
to /etc/asound.conf enables a hardware device. Stopping pulseaudio may be required to use this.