Microsofts new way of bashing Linux

[Lee Revell]

On Mon, 2006-06-19 at 09:10 +1000, Alexander Jacob Tsykin wrote:
> 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
> 

Someone really needs to close some of these resolved bugs.  I did a
search on Launchpad for "default soundcard" and found 16 open bugs.  At
least 10 of them were reported fixed by the user.

Lee