From: Jan Knutar <jk-lkml@sci.fi>
To: Christophe Saout <christophe@saout.de>
Cc: Martin Schlemmer <azarah@nosferatu.za.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing Lists <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>,
alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: XMMS (or some other audio player) 'hang' issues with intel8x0 and dmix plugin [u]
Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2004 14:02:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200411021402.01566.jk-lkml@sci.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1099396329.713.4.camel@leto.cs.pocnet.net>
On Tuesday 02 November 2004 13:52, Christophe Saout wrote:
> > What's strange is that almost always when it happens, either mplayer or
> > beep-media-player will have an extra forked process.
>
> This has something to do with dmix forking off a process, I don't know
> exactly what it is for, it does something with the dmix unix socket
> in /tmp.
Aha. I've also, I recall, seen player hang right on start, and then also presumably
in alsa-lib trying to open the socket in /tmp but blocking forever on that for some
reason... Intermittent bugs are the most annoying of all :-)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-11-02 12:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-11-01 4:42 Martin Schlemmer [c]
2004-11-02 7:43 ` Clemens Schwaighofer
2004-11-03 1:45 ` Martin Schlemmer [c]
2004-11-03 6:36 ` Clemens Schwaighofer
2004-11-03 17:27 ` Martin Schlemmer [c]
2004-11-02 8:57 ` Christophe Saout
2004-11-02 11:40 ` Jan Knutar
2004-11-02 11:52 ` Christophe Saout
2004-11-02 12:02 ` Jan Knutar [this message]
2004-11-03 1:53 ` Martin Schlemmer [c]
2004-11-03 1:50 ` Martin Schlemmer [c]
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