Re: Call-for-testing: Asynchronous audio device detach

Hello Pavel,

Pavel Timofeev wrote:
> Hello
> 
> This functionality has always been in my personal list of desires.
> Thank you for implementing this!
> 
> I don't have many USB sound devices nowadays. Only a couple of usb
> headphones.
> So I tried 15-CURRENT main-n269827-b07689d1f2a2 under gnome and it worked
> well with some basic things.
> The system survives usb headphone disconnect (unlike before) and switches
> to another output after a few seconds (not immediately however).
> This is what I experience during youtube video playback in chromium.

Can you elaborate on "not immediately"? Is there a hang during this time
window?

> 
> I'll try to extend the test and play with it more soon.
> 
> I'm really glad this is fixed now!
> Thanks to everyone involved in this!
> 
> On Fri, Apr 12, 2024 at 1:40 PM Christos Margiolis <christos@freebsd.org>
> wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> >
> > Yesterday I committed a patch [1] which adds support for asynchronous
> > device detach for audio devices, something that many people with
> > detachable audio devices (e.g USB) have been asking for for years
> > [2][3][4][5][6][many more...]. I would like to ask you to give it a try
> > and let me know if everything works properly. Note that this patch
> > depends on dc831e93bad6 [7], so make sure to apply this one as well.
> >
> > Christos
> >
> > [1]
> > https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/?id=44e128fe9d92c1a544b801cb56e907a66ef34691
> > [2] https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=194727
> > [3]
> > https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/not-entering-sleep-state-due-to-audio.82597/
> > [4]
> > https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/forcing-off-the-computer-endlessly-waiting-for-sound-application-to-exit-at-sleep-suspend-time.80412/
> > [5] https://www.davidschlachter.com/misc/freebsd-usb-audio
> > [6]
> > https://randomnixfix.wordpress.com/2021/10/23/why-the-freebsd-desktop-and-my-linux-rant/
> > [7]
> > https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/?id=e8c0d15a64fadb4a330f2da7244becaac161bb70