[LAD] Alsa: poll mixer events, always returns true in subsequent calls
Clemens Ladisch
clemens at ladisch.de
Tue Jan 29 08:39:31 UTC 2013
Muffinman wrote:
> I'm trying to poll mixer events in Alsa using C. I've used the following
> functions within an infinite while loop:
> ...
> snd_hctl_poll_descriptors(hctl, poll_fds, 1);
You are supposed to call snd_hctl_poll_descriptors_count() to get the
number of descriptors.
> if (poll_fds[0].revents & POLLIN)
You are supposed to call snd_hctl_poll_descriptors_revents() to get the
events from the descriptors.
> While I can get the first mixer event fine, in all subsequent rounds,
> both snd_hctl_wait and poll always return immediately.
You should call snd_hctl_handle_events() to read all the events.
> However, calling snd_hctl_handle_events here never returns
> and I can't quite figure out why.
See amixer/amixer.c in the alsa-utils package for an example.
"amixer events" is undocumented for some reason; but does it work?
Regards,
Clemens
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