[MPlayer-users] reenabled xscreensaver blocks /dev/dsp

[Arpi]

Hi,

> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> On Wednesday, 28 August 2002, Petr Pajas wrote:
> [...]
> You didn't say which version you were using, but this is a known problem
> and it's fixed in CVS AFAIR.

no it isn't
but at least i've finally understand the problem :)

the prob is that mplayer executes xscreensaver, so it's a child process of
mplayer, inheriting the open files including dsp.

so we should just do killall -STOP/-CONT xscreenmsaver insteda of
stopping/restarting it ;)


A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team

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