[MPlayer-users] alsa 0.9.1- xscreensaver

[Jindrich Makovicka]

D Richard Felker III wrote:

>[Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
>On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 01:14:08AM +0100, Márton Gábor wrote:
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>>[Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
>>Hi !
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>>With -ao alsa9 -stop_xscreensaver mplayer does not close my
>>sound device.
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>It's a known limitation of the broken design of alsa userspace libs,
>as well as a bug in xscreensaver which the author refuses to fix. Use
>oss emulation (should work just as well) or else killall -9
>xscreensaver (preferred).
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Here is a spinoff of a recent patch by Tobias Geiger 
<tobias.geiger at web.de> posted to devel, with the changes you proposed. I 
changed my opinion on this after having the same problem with /dev/rtc 
and who knows what else can be affected.

Regards,

-- 
Jindrich Makovicka

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