get gstreamer or xine torelease sound card?

[Matt Price]

hi folks,

so my amarok player is nearly complete!  You may remember i was building
an amarok-ipod system.  I had some trouble with the sound card on my
thinkpad 600e -- it's not recognized correctly and I couldn't get the
alsa driver to load.  oss works ok, though, so I am using that' but on
suspned, the driver hangs, so it needs to be removed before suspend.
Unfortunately amarok takes a while to come up when it's restarted.  So I
would like to figure out a way to get amarok (which on xubuntu uses
xine) to pause and then temporarily releasethe soundcard.  Anyone know
how to do that?  Is it at all possible?

If I could get gstreamer0.10 to do the same thing, that would also be
good enough.  The current amarok can't use gstreamer, far as I can tell,
but exaline does, and exaline is just about good enough for my purposes.

THaks loads,

matt

-- 
Matt Price
History Dept
University of Toronto
matt.price-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org
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