Re: XMMS (or some other audio player) 'hang' issues with intel8x0 anddmix plugin [u]

[Jan Knutar]

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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