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authorAlexandre Ratchov <ratchov@cvs.openbsd.org>2008-10-30 18:14:52 +0000
committerAlexandre Ratchov <ratchov@cvs.openbsd.org>2008-10-30 18:14:52 +0000
commit7503fcee253551fd2908f2fe1755888c92ef4eb8 (patch)
treefca6abf394c4cab9aaf48166aa959c005eb69490 /usr.bin/aucat
parentdfe3458a7e86815a01f387bbe3381afd99ed87d2 (diff)
since people often ask, add BUGS entry to explain why
aucat should be started automatically yet at system startup help from jmc@
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.bin/aucat')
-rw-r--r--usr.bin/aucat/aucat.115
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/aucat/aucat.1 b/usr.bin/aucat/aucat.1
index be15baaadad..b6f414200ea 100644
--- a/usr.bin/aucat/aucat.1
+++ b/usr.bin/aucat/aucat.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: aucat.1,v 1.27 2008/10/26 11:55:22 jmc Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: aucat.1,v 1.28 2008/10/30 18:14:51 ratchov Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2006 Alexandre Ratchov <alex@caoua.org>
.\"
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
.\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF
.\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
.\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: October 26 2008 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: October 30 2008 $
.Dt AUCAT 1
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -356,3 +356,14 @@ It should be smaller for simpler ones.
Processing is done using 16-bit arithmetic,
thus samples with more than 16 bits are rounded.
16 bits (i.e. 97dB dynamic) are largely enough for most applications though.
+.Pp
+In server mode
+.Nm
+will continue playing and recording even if there are no clients.
+This consumes system resources unnecessarily, thus starting
+.Nm
+at system or session startup is not recommended.
+.Pp
+In server mode, a full-duplex
+.Xr audio 4
+device is required.