On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 01:51:55PM +0000, Stefan Sperling wrote: > On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 02:18:53PM +0100, Hannah Schroeter wrote: > > Hi! > > > > On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 06:18:20PM +0100, Alexandre Ratchov wrote: > > >yes i hope this will be possible. First we have to update all ports > > >to use libsndio, because while aucat is running, programs trying to > > >open directly /dev/audio will fail with "Device busy". > > > > Couldn't aucat free the sound device after some idle time (and re-open > > when needed), just like esd or arts do it? Then it could co-habitate a > > bit better with applications that do not use aucat. > > +1 > > For example, xmms and aucat cannot be used together right now, which > prevents me from testing aucat altogether (I need my sound card to > play music, you know :) >
Unfortunately this requires intrusive changes that would complicate (and weaken) aucat. It would be a lot of work for something that will not be used in the long term. > Converting all ports should be a long-term goal, but having a simple > mechanism for cooperation between aucat and non-aucat apps would > be very nice. There will likely always be new sound apps that get > ported and initially lack a libsndio backend. > new apps will likely lack support for the sun audio api too. Adding support for libsndio is supposed to be easier than porting them to the sun audio api. -- Alexandre
