Re: Polypaudio for Gnome 2.10, the next steps

[Lennart Poettering <mztabzr 0pointer de>]

On Tue, 23.11.04 19:02, Colin Walters (walters redhat com) wrote:

> 
> On Tue, 2004-11-23 at 18:55 -0500, Colin Walters wrote:
> > [...] If they're using polypaudio, then the
> > polypaudio daemon will be holding the sound device, so to start their
> > app they'll have to hunt down every other possible user and close it.
> 
> (And terminate the Polypaudio daemon...then restart it when they close
> the app...)

As I wrote earlier: this is not correct. You may use module
autoloading or daemon autospawning. In both cases the sound device is
not blocked by polypaudio if it isn't really in use.

Lenart

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