[Openal] Using OpenAL towards firewire devices

[Jason Daly]

Helge Fredriksen wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I'm checking the possibility to grab sound on Linux using the Roland 
> Edirol FA-101. It appears on the lists of devices supported on Linux 
> (ALSA) so I guess the 10 different sound channels should be accessible 
> through OpenAL as well then? Any special tweaks to query the different 
> sound channels available on a particular device?

I doubt you'll get all 10 channels of I/O out of the box.  In fact you'd 
probably be limited to 2 channels in and 4 out, if it works at all.  So 
far, most of the development on the SI (the sample implementation) has 
been targeted toward consumer sound cards.  Support for multi-channel 
I/O has been discussed (at least I think it's been mentioned), but not 
in great depth yet.

--"J"