Lennart Augustsson <augustss@cs.chalmers.se> said:
> Sorry, but I have to half disagree with you.  One of the programs in
> my audio test suite sets the audio device in non-blocking mode
> and then selects, it works fine.
> Reading, on the other hand, does not start until you do a read
> in blocking mode.  I'll change that, it looks like a bug.

You are right - I mistakenly assumed the problem was symmetric, but 
apparently it does not affect playback, only recording.
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Andreas Gustafsson, gson@araneus.fi