Bug#448786: a7xpg: fails to start when audio device is in use

[Paul Wise]

Package: a7xpg
Version: 0.11.dfsg1-2
Severity: normal

Since sound isn't essential to this game, please change it so that it
starts when the audio device is in use. Ideally it would indicate on the
screen that sound is not available with an icon or something.

Alternatively, it could show the error in a GUI dialog instead of
stdout, since many newbies wouldn't know where to look for such errors. 

$ a7xpg 
Error: Error: Couldn't open audio: No available audio device

$ lsof | grep /dev/snd
mixer_app 4694            pabs   19u      CHR      116,0            7111 /dev/snd/controlC0
esd       5035            pabs  mem       CHR     116,16            7076 /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p
esd       5035            pabs    5r      CHR     116,33            6892 /dev/snd/timer
esd       5035            pabs    6u      CHR     116,16            7076 /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p
esd       5035            pabs    7u      CHR      116,0            7111 /dev/snd/controlC0

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-3-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages a7xpg depends on:
ii  a7xpg-data                  0.11.dfsg1-2 chase action game - game data
ii  libc6                       2.6.1-6      GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgcc1                     1:4.2.2-3    GCC support library
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1]    7.0.1-2      A free implementation of the OpenG
ii  libglu1-mesa [libglu1]      7.0.1-2      The OpenGL utility library (GLU)
ii  libsdl-mixer1.2             1.2.8-1      mixer library for Simple DirectMed
ii  libsdl1.2debian             1.2.12-1     Simple DirectMedia Layer
ii  libstdc++6                  4.2.2-3      The GNU Standard C++ Library v3

-- 
bye,
pabs

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