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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Arts occupies sound device
From:       Stefan Taferner <taferner () salzburg ! co ! at>
Date:       2000-04-10 8:21:02
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On Fri, 07 Apr 2000, Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Apr 2000, Stefan Westerfeld wrote:
> > > Is there a chance that artsd could only occupy the device if really
> > > needed? Or even better that it can share the sound device with legacy
> > > apps?
> > > IMO we have to find some way around here, as we canīt expect apps like
> > > the real player to become arts aware.
> >
> > First of all: why can they not become aRts aware?
>
> Waiting for that would be stupid - it would shut out everything that
> doesn't get ported, and I don't think any of the gnome-* packages will be
> ported to aRts anytime soon (yet we must be able to run them in KDE).

Yes.

IMO artsd should close the sound device(s) when it is idle.
Maybe similar to it's new suspend ability, but with a shorter timeout?

There are lots of apps out that are not and will not be arts aware.

Of course we could have some pseudo devices, but this requires AFAIK
kernel level device programming, which is not very portable.

Kind regards,
Stefan

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