On 2/9/2012 5:14 AM, Paul Menzel wrote:
> Am Samstag, den 04.02.2012, 10:40 -0800 schrieb Arjan van de Ven:
>> On 2/4/2012 10:10 AM, Paul Menzel wrote:
> 
>>> looking at the output of PowerTOP 1.97 on two laptops the usage of the
>>> audio codec is always 100 % after the boot.
>>>
>>>             100,0%                      Device         Audio codec hwC0D0: 
>>> Realtek
>>>
>>> The same is true with a Conexant codec.
>>>
>>> This happens although power management in ALSA is set up and no sound is
>>> played.
>>>
>>>         $ more /sys/module/snd_hda_intel/parameters/power_save_controller
>>>                 Y
>>>         $ more /sys/module/snd_hda_intel/parameters/power_save
>>>         1
>>>
>>> Most of the time I can get that behavior to change when I play some
>>> audio and then stop it.
>>>
>>> Could you confirm this issues? Then I could possibly send a report to
>>> the ALSA folks.
>>
>> I've seen it a few times when pulse audio kept the guy busy...
>> you can check that by killing the pulseaudio  daemon
>> (don't worry, it'll come back the next time you play a sound)
> 
> Thank you for the suggestion. PulseAudio is not installed on the system
> though. How can I find out which process is using an audio device?

uhm


try the "lsof" tool

or you found a real kernel driver bug ;-)

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