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

[Petr Pajas]

Arpi <arpi at thot.banki.hu> writes:

>> 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.

yes, thats what I was humbly trying to say:)

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

well, that's a nice solution. 

> A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team

good job!.

-- p