From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jan_Dj=E4rv?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: play-sound-file & esd Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 09:21:10 +0200 Message-ID: <44697D66.5060300@swipnet.se> References: <44572E8B.6060102@swipnet.se> <44585258.7040506@swipnet.se> <445EF2F9.5060209@swipnet.se> <87r732wzz6.fsf@robotron.kosmorama> <44618798.3030901@swipnet.se> <4461E7DC.8070007@swipnet.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1147764116 25198 80.91.229.2 (16 May 2006 07:21:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 07:21:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: sds@podval.org, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 16 09:21:52 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FftsK-0006nn-FN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 May 2006 09:21:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FftsJ-0004pK-Lx for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 May 2006 03:21:47 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ffts1-0004pA-EU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 May 2006 03:21:29 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Fftry-0004oy-Mk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 May 2006 03:21:28 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Fftry-0004ov-7A for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 May 2006 03:21:26 -0400 Original-Received: from [81.228.9.182] (helo=av7-2-sn3.vrr.skanova.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FftuX-0001Bh-OW; Tue, 16 May 2006 03:24:05 -0400 Original-Received: by av7-2-sn3.vrr.skanova.net (Postfix, from userid 502) id A250A37ED7; Tue, 16 May 2006 08:57:39 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from smtp3-2-sn3.vrr.skanova.net (smtp3-2-sn3.vrr.skanova.net [81.228.9.102]) by av7-2-sn3.vrr.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9321D37E76; Tue, 16 May 2006 08:57:39 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from coolsville.localdomain (81-235-205-204-no59.tbcn.telia.com [81.235.205.204]) by smtp3-2-sn3.vrr.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id A448337E49; Tue, 16 May 2006 09:21:23 +0200 (CEST) User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (X11/20060501) Original-To: Andreas Schwab In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:54562 Archived-At: Andreas Schwab skrev: > Richard Stallman writes: > >> Where do we stand on this? >> >> It looks like you are running ALSA v1.0.11rc2, and it does NOT >> work to have multiple opens. ALSA experts, is that version supposed >> to be new enough to support multiple opens? > > AFAIK that version should be new enough. But only the native ALSA > interface has access to the software mixer. When using the legacy OSS > interface (eg. through /dev/dsp) you are still limited to a single open. > Aha, that is why it works for me. So then we should make Emacs use the ALSA API. This doesn't look too hard, but I guess it is something for after the release. Jan D.