Hi, I did some archive searching but couldn't find anything on this. I'm running Evolution 1.4.5 under Gentoo. I do a lot of Pro Audio work under Linux and cannot have applications grabbing sound hardware. Evolution seems to fail in this respect. Is there anything I can do about it?
I start Evolution with the --disable-sound command line option. Before starting there is no sound usage by anything except my Linux audio mixer. Wizard root # lsof | grep sound hdspmixer 1639 mark mem REG 3,7 792783 442538 /usr/lib/libasound.so.2.0.0 When Evolution is running, there is a lot of usage: Wizard root # lsof | grep sound hdspmixer 1639 mark mem REG 3,7 792783 442538 /usr/lib/libasound.so.2.0.0 evolution 1993 mark mem REG 3,7 792783 442538 /usr/lib/libasound.so.2.0.0 evolution 1999 mark mem REG 3,7 792783 442538 /usr/lib/libasound.so.2.0.0 evolution 2001 mark mem REG 3,7 792783 442538 /usr/lib/libasound.so.2.0.0 evolution 2004 mark mem REG 3,7 792783 442538 /usr/lib/libasound.so.2.0.0 evolution 2005 mark mem REG 3,7 792783 442538 /usr/lib/libasound.so.2.0.0 evolution 2006 mark mem REG 3,7 792783 442538 /usr/lib/libasound.so.2.0.0 evolution 2007 mark mem REG 3,7 792783 442538 /usr/lib/libasound.so.2.0.0 evolution 2008 mark mem REG 3,7 792783 442538 /usr/lib/libasound.so.2.0.0 Even after Evolution closes there is still usage: Wizard root # lsof | grep sound hdspmixer 1639 mark mem REG 3,7 792783 442538 /usr/lib/libasound.so.2.0.0 evolution 1999 mark mem REG 3,7 792783 442538 /usr/lib/libasound.so.2.0.0 evolution 2001 mark mem REG 3,7 792783 442538 /usr/lib/libasound.so.2.0.0 I have audio applications that won't run (i.e. - they are blocked) until I close Evolution. How can I get around this? Thanks, Mark _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
