Re: [alsa-devel] "default" device. Is there a way to detect if it's a plugin, and if so which one?

Am 03.04.2011 14:22, schrieb Colin Guthrie:

Hi,

If the user opens the "default" device in alsa, is there a way to find out if that "device" is actually a plugin?

i.e. is it possible to tell if you have opened the pulseaudio plugin via alsa?

There are various hacky ways (e.g. checking hints etc.) but that relies on downstream packaging which certainly isn't fool proof.

Hi

Maybe one could parse the config files with snd_config_xxx and friends and look what the type pcm.default is.

I've stumpled upon something similar when qasmixer tries to open ctl.default which in some cases doesn't exist.

Sebastian H.