Re: [alsa-devel] How can you tell if the speaker jack on your sound card has anything plugged into it???

How would one go about getting this info? I'm trying to create a monitoring tool for a specific sound card, so the driver's standardized...

Mark Brown wrote:

On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 01:29:59PM -0600, Sean Thayne wrote:

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  I was talking with some users in the irc channel in the free node, 

and was hoping to find a way to get the information about weither or not anything was plugged into the sound card, I've seen this feature with windows vista. I search thru a bunch of documentation sites and also scanned the /proc & /sys to no avail...

There's currently no standard way of getting this information from user space even where the hardware provides it.