[nas] [maddog at mir.com: Bug#168814: some additional info...]

[Jon Trulson]

On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, Steve McIntyre wrote:

[...]
> ----- Forwarded message from Matto Marjanovic <maddog at mir.com> -----
>
[...]

	...and maybe I should have also read this one before responding to
the last ;-)

>
> Here are some more data points:
>
> 1) Setting "ReleaseDevice" to "no" in nasd.conf makes the problem go away.
>

	Yes... Of course it would, as the rate change would have been
applied to an open device...

> 2) The emu10k1 driver allows /dev/dsp to be opened multiple times (up to
>     4 or so times, I think), and it somehow will multiplex multiple incoming
>     streams.  So, "ReleaseDevice" isn't strictly necessary to make nasd
>     co-exist with non-NAS software.  (Why didn't I realize this a year ago?
>     Eh, lazy...)
>
>    I think this feature of the sound driver is somehow triggering a bug in
>     nasd when it comes to opening/reopening/re-reopening the dsp device.
>

	Yeah... if it's what I think it is - but then I would have
expected this to effect all voxware cards...  Strange.  Does he still want
to investigate and perhaps help me fix it still? ;-)


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