On Tue, 2006-07-11 at 10:30 -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx wrote: > On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 08:15:28 +0200, Adam =?ISO-8859-2?B?VGxhs2th?= said: > > Sorry to say but it is just not that way. Window manager is for managing windows > > and it shouldn't depend on any audio system. It should use an external app using exec call > > to play sounds (aplay, sox, wavplay etc.) configured by some config option. > > So what you're saying is that something like 'esd' *is* needed. (It's > certainly silly to keep doing fork/exec for every little sound sample when > you can just leave the app running and hand it requests...) That approach also won't be reliable as it ignores the realtime constraint that is inherent in audio playback. It will probably work on a fast/lightly loaded machine but will glitch out under load. It's how GDM plays startup/shutdown sounds and it sucks - on shutdown the sound is choppy. You either need a dedicated daemon running SCHED_FIFO or an RT thread for reliable audio playback. Lee ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-devel
