[ltp] thinkpad-acpi release 0.23-20091220 uploaded to ibm-acpi.sf.net

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Wed, 23 Dec 2009, Damjan wrote:
> > Also, if the driver refuses to unload, check if your desktop environment is
> > not doing something idiotic like keeping ALSA devices open for no reason at
> 
> what do you suggest if people want to see notifications of the changed
> volume? Is holding /dev/snd/controlC0 open idiotic?

If you're not doing anything with it, yes.  See the "no reason at all" part
of my rant.  If something is providing notifications, it is doing something
isn't it?

If you want to unload the driver anyway, you'll have to kill whatever is
keeping the ALSA mixer open.  There's nothing I can do about it.

> > all other than to waste power and lock modules in place.  "lsof | grep
> > /dev/snd" is your friend to find the annoying pests.
> 
> "lsof /dev/snd/*" is probably a better option

Yes, that would work.

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  Henrique Holschuh