[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#268901: Bug#268901: xfce4-mixer: should close mixer device

[Guido Guenther]

On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 10:02:08AM +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 08:30:29AM +0000, Guido Guenther wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 10:46:38PM +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> > > > How would I do that, the plugin only allows to select /dev/mixer as
> > > > device.
> > > 
> > > Install xfce4-mixer-alsa instead of xfce4-mixer-oss?
> > That works around the problem. The problem is still there in
> > xfce4-mixer-oss though. But thanks for the suggestion, I didn't know
> > about the -alsa version.
> > Cheers,
> 
> It's not really a "work around". oss is deprecated since a long time and alsa
> is the default mixer variant. I don't know how oss survive suspend, but you
> really should use alsa anyway.
I'm certainly using alsa but I had to use the oss emulation of
xfce4-mixer since early versions didn't support alsa.
Cheers,
 -- Guido