Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 27 Jul 2005 16:03:27 -0600 (MDT) | From | Zwane Mwaikambo <> | Subject | RE: Variable ticks |
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On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, Lee Revell wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 02:13 -0600, Zwane Mwaikambo wrote: > > > What about audio? If there is a sound server running then you're going > > > to have a constant stream of interrupts and DMA activity from the sound > > > card even if the machine is idle and there aren't any sounds playing. > > > > Doesn't artsd at least close the audio device after some configurable idle > > time? In which case that sounds like a userspace issue. > > Well, as of ALSA 1.0.9 which does software mixing and volume control by > default, all the sound servers are obsolete. So this should be a > non-issue with a modern distro. > > As far as legacy support, AFAIK esd and artsd both grab the sound device > on startup and never release it.
I just setup KDE/artsd to release the sound device after 30seconds and it seems to work. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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