[Coco] DW4 and Linux sound

[Willard Goosey]

On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 04:09:34PM -0500, Steven Hirsch wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Nov 2012, Gene Heskett wrote:
> 
> >No clue what is going on with your system Steven, but I have yet to have
> >the DW gui, in any version, interfere with audio on this ubuntu-10.04.4 LTS
> >install.  You may want to look at the gui's config.xml as it probably can
> >be changed.  I am not setup ATM with a DW MIDI descriptor in my boot file,
> >so perhaps 4.3.0 doesn't acquire an audio device in that event?  Here,
> >grepping for /dev/ only shows the ttyUSB1 port I am using for DW.

The server code seems to lock /dev/dsp, not the UI.

Slackware 12.2 here.

The thing that wierded me out: having /dev/dsp open wasn't a problem
'till I had to start using udev.  Maybe there's some way to make udev
treat /dev/dsp as sharable?

Willard
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