Microsofts new way of bashing Linux

Alexander Jacob Tsykin stsykin at gmail.com
Mon Jun 19 00:10:35 BST 2006


On Monday 19 June 2006 00:42, Lee Revell wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-06-18 at 18:43 +1000, Alexander Jacob Tsykin wrote:
> > This was helpful. The "device busy" error message means that a codec
> > is not available (I have no idea why the error message is so
> > uninformative, but that is the case). Try installing the windows
> > codecs. The fix is simple. First open a terminal, then type:
>
> "Device busy" could also be a software mixing failure - there was a dmix
> bug in ALSA recently where if an app closed and reopened the sound
> device quickly, the second open would get "device busy".
>
> It's fixed in alsa-lib 1.0.11, I'm not sure if the Dapper version of
> alsa-lib has all the critical fixes since 1.0.10 backported.
>
The bug, in between the ranting said that it was filed for breezy

Sasha



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