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From: Carlo Florendo <subscribermail@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [LAD] How to get correct midi timings from ALSA
 using the library only
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 16:51:46 +0800
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Clemens Ladisch wrote:
> Carlo Florendo wrote:
>> Clemens Ladisch wrote:
>>>> However, I wish to be able to make the sequencer or player work without the 
>>>> use of the ALSA queue nor the workaround in (2).
>>> Why?
>> Because the queue output and draining, AFAICS, is implemented in a blocking 
>> manner.
> 
> When non-blocking mode is set (see snd_seq_nonblock()),
> snd_seq_drain_output() does not block but writes only as many events to
> the kernel buffer as fit inside (or returns -EAGAIN if the kernel buffer
> is completely full).

Gee!  I haven't read the ALSA lib API docs that much but this sounds and 
looks like a solution to the problem :)

Thank you very much for the pointers and for all your patience.

> 
> 
> Regards,
> Clemens
> 

Best Regards,

Carlo



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