From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 20 Sep 2001 09:41:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 20 Sep 2001 09:40:57 -0400 Received: from mail.scs.ch ([212.254.229.5]:21003 "EHLO mail.scs.ch") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 20 Sep 2001 09:40:47 -0400 Message-ID: <3BA9F1F0.F9FAD38B@scs.ch> Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 15:41:04 +0200 From: Thomas Sailer Reply-To: t.sailer@alumni.ethz.ch Organization: SCS X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [de] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.3-13jnx i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Andr=E9?= Dahlqvist CC: Nicholas Knight , Adrian Cox , t.sailer@alumni.ethz.ch, jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: via82cxxx_audio locking problems In-Reply-To: <3BA9AB43.C26366BF@scs.ch> <01092004333500.00182@c779218-a> <3BA9DBED.9020401@humboldt.co.uk> <01092005243800.01369@c779218-a> <20010920154049.A4282@telia.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org André Dahlqvist schrieb: > I'm using the VIA audio driver and I have what appears to be a very similar > problem: > > When I try to move my XMMS window while playing a song the window sometimes > "gets stuck" for a second or so during the move. Moving the window without > any song playing works just fine. I also tried setting the buffer to 200ms > but it didn't solve it for me either. I'm seeing this too. XMMS polls the mixer every couple of seconds, and runs into the semaphore locking issue. As to why moving windows in that state is blocked I don't know since I do not know the X internals well enough... Tom