In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Ian Jackson wrote: >> Other programs *should* use it. It takes over /dev/audio when it runs, >> because it is a server. Because most programs that use sound have >> their own small server, only one sound program can run at once. With >> the rational you gave, *all* packages that have sound should be extra, >> because they are preventing each other. NAS is providing a solution >> for this problem if you build the programs to use it (but then you get >> other problems, as NAS is slower than direct access). > >No, because if you install NAS it hogs the sound device even when >you're not using it. Other sound using programs don't have this >property. > >Until it's policy that all sound-using programs should use NAS (and >this seems unlikely any time soon) then NAS as currently shipped is >buggy because it makes it impossible to run other sound-using programs >on machines where it is installed, unlike all other sound-using >programs. > >Therefore it should be Extra.
Agreed for now, and as I've volunteered to take over maintenance I'll move it there. The package could do with a lot of work, and will probably prompt me to post here a few times asking for advice/preferences. Maybe it would even be possible for a patched nas to _not_ grab the audio device, but instead to open it only when necessary. I'll be investigating this. -- Steve McIntyre, CURS CCE, Cambridge, UK. [EMAIL PROTECTED] <a href=http://www.rpg-soc.ucam.org/curs/>CURS home page</a> "Can't keep my eyes from the circling sky, +------------------ "Tongue-tied & twisted, Just an earth-bound misfit, I..." |Finger for PGP key -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
