Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 02 Nov 2004 14:02:01 +0200 | From | Jan Knutar <> | Subject | Re: XMMS (or some other audio player) 'hang' issues with intel8x0 and dmix plugin [u] |
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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 :-)
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