Lennart Poettering wrote, On 12/24/2009 05:47 PM: > My recommendation is to fix you app not to keep the audio device > open. That simply has the effect of wasting power. > In that case, how is the user expected to control the volume etc for this application? It seems like Pidgin does exactly that (through gstreamer), and that makes it hard to control the volume. See http://pidgin.im/pipermail/support/2009-June/004101.html Is this issue deadlocked as described on http://pidgin.im/pipermail/support/2009-June/004108.html ? /Mads