Bart Smaalders wrote:
> Garrett D'Amore wrote:
>> Please let us know if there are any concerns about any of the above.
>>
>
>
> This looks good, Garrett. Can we also obsolete the ability to
> disable the mixer in mixerctl? I don't want to force all applications
> to have to deal with open calls to /dev/audio blocking indefinitely.
Yes, I'm sorry -- I thought I had already indicated this in the
inception materials. It is not possible to disable the mixer. All
support for any kind of "exclusive mode" access was removed in the
Boomer gate a long time ago. :-)
I suppose there might be certain *ancient* applications this breaks...
but such applications would not have played well with other uses of the
audio device anyway (include any use by desktop environments like gnome!)
-- Garrett
