Paul Telford wrote: > > > 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?
open with O_NONBLOCK and check writes for EAGAIN. -- see shy jo
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