On Saturday 10 April 2004 18:55, David Pye shaped the electrons to shout: > > 3. completely dependent on artsd (and actually who really _likes_ > > artsd?) > > Actually, I'm quite fond of it, myself. It's quite a clever idea if you > look at what it does.
It's so clever that nobody knows, even the programmers, why: 1. It consumes CPU when idle. It doesn't matter if it's OSS, ALSA, a SounBlaster or a integrated Intel sound card. It doesn't matter neither if you change the setting to "autosuspend if idle". 2. It locks the device so every other application that try to play a sound is starved. It doesn't matter that "autosuspend if idle" is marked. :-) -- ricardo galli GPG id C8114D34 http://mnm.uib.es/~gallir/ Recursivo. (del lat. recursus), adj. Condici�n de recursivo.
