> if the audio device is open by another application, xgalaga-sndserv
> waits until that device closes it, and then pushes all sounds to audio.
> It sounds bad when playing mp3's and between songs i hear all that crap.
> Imho sound server should exit if it can't open audio device.
With something like KDE, artsd grabs an exclusive hold on /dev/dsp.
xgalaga seems happy to queue sounds until it can write. Short of adding
arts support, I wonder if its possible to check at open() time somehow to
see if writes are being blocked?
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