On Wednesday 17 September 2008 05:47:40 Eliot Blennerhassett wrote: > Greetings. > > can anyone tell me how to find out which processes are using an ALSA > driver and preventing it from being unloaded. > Not only files, but also other modules will prevent alsa drivers from being unloaded. If you do an "lsmod", the 3rd column will show "Used by". The ones that don't have a value in this column are not used and should be the first ones to unload, then move down the chain until you've reached the main module you want to unload. > I know that "lsof /dev/snd" will tell me who has these files open, but > often this shows nothing and still the driver can't be unloaded. > > Where else should I look? > > Is there an equivalent to lsof for memory mapped regions? > > > -- > Eliot > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's > challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win > great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere > in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ > _______________________________________________ > Alsa-user mailing list > Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
