Awesome - that worked.

It doesn't matter to me who is using it - I don't want to interefere
with the current sound with my "OMFG!!! The world is collapsing" alarm.

Thanks.

George



"der.hans" wrote:
> 
> Am 19. Apr, 2002 schwätzte George Toft so:
> 
> > How can I tell if an application is using the sound card?  I'm writing
> > a script that needs to play a sound, but only if the sound card is not
> > currently being used.  What I'm doing right now is:
> >
> >       IN_USE=`lsof | grep dsp`
> >
> > Which works, but I know lsof can impose a performance hit.  Any ideas?
> 
> fuser /dev/dsp
> 
> You could then walk those proc numbers to see if it's esd or the sound
> daemon that KDE is using and try to connect to that daemon.
> 
> ciao,
> 
> der.hans
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