On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Geert Jansen wrote:

> Cristian Tibirna wrote:
> 
> > arts:
> >  - takes 16% of my processor and does absolutely nothing (doesn't play,
> >    doesn't issue errors, nothing)
> 
> It's mixing 0 streams :-) It would be nice if Stefan could idle artsd when
> there are no connections. And give up the sound device would be nice too!

AFAIK Stefan is working onidle detection. On the other hand I do not think
that giving up the device is a good idea because it leads to
undeterminitic behaviour for the user. Much better is if distributors make
use of the legacy support of arts. (artscat)

Yours,
 -- martin

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