[Pkg-alsa-devel] Killing Alsa using apps really needed?

[Jörg Sommer]

Hallo Elimar,

Elimar Riesebieter schrieb am Wed 09. Jan, 23:33 (+0100):
> On Wed, 09 Jan 2008 the mental interface of
> Jörg Sommer told:
> 
> > is it really needed to kill the applications they use Alsa in
> > /usr/sbin/alsa? This script is called by /etc/apm/suspend.d/80alsa when
> > suspending. Unfortunely it kills the daemon pbbuttonsd that manages the
> > suspend. So, is it really needed to unload the module? What if Alsa is
> > built in the kernel?
> 
> Please see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=455076 ,
> there are users who need that script on other platforms than we both
> are running :)

Do you know if it's needed on PowerPC? I've disabled the script and wait
for the things they are comming.

> Else:
> 
> diff <(/usr/sbin/alsa suspend; ps ax | grep pbb) <(sleep 2; /usr/sbin/alsa resume; ps ax | grep pbb)
> 
> doesn't show "/usr/bin/pbbuttonsd --configfile=/etc/pbbuttonsd.cnf -d"
> to be killed?

Right. That was what drove me crazy. pbbuttonsd closes the interface
after some time. So it's not killed every time. But writing full buffers
slows the process down which gave alsa time to kill pbbuttonsd. I've
expected a problem with the hard disk driver and some other silly things,
but never the suspend script itself.

Simply, change the loudness with the special keys before running diff.

This problem should also effect gtkpbbuttons. But I'm running it with
-a /dev/null, so I can't say if it does.

Bye, Jörg.
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