[Alsa-user] how to detect activity or non activity on soundcard

2012-03-23 Thread Robert Bude
hi everybody, at home i have a mythbuntu media pc. it will shutdown if no tv recording is sheduled and no user programs like mediaplayers webbrowsers and so on open. this works with an preshutdown script which simply checks if one of the programs i define is still active. this works very good.

Re: [Alsa-user] how to detect activity or non activity on soundcard

2012-03-23 Thread Torsten Schenk
Hello Robert, take a look into the /proc/asound folder, there you find alsa status informations. For example if I do a 'cat' on my PC on the file /proc/asound/card0/pcm0p/sub0/hw_params it returns closed if no sound is running and information about samplerate and so on if sound is running.

[Alsa-user] SIIG IC-510111-S1 (ice1724)

2012-03-23 Thread Alexey I Korepanov
Hello. I have a problem with SIIG IC-510111-S1 PCI express audio card (see link below for some details) http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16829270011 There is no sound approximately every second time I boot the computer. When there's sound, it works perfectly. I am on Gentoo,