At Wed, 20 Jan 2010 21:20:40 +0200, Aleksandar Kostadinov wrote: > > Hello, > > >From some time now ALSA is a real pleasure to use. Namely it works by > OOB and has lots of predefined useful PCMs so one doesn't need to be a > guru to do advanced operations. > > I think that a small improvement in how default PCM is defined can > help users with multiple sound cards that like to use pure ALSA and > not some of the many available sound servers. > I want to be able to switch the default sound device easily in > asoundrc but the way the default pcm is defined makes this not very > straightforward. I like to use the definitions of default:<CARD> but > if I define "pcm.!default" in .asoundrc I lose the "default:<CARD>" > definition. I now can rename the "default" definition in default.conf > to someting like "defaultorg" and then reference it asoundrc but that > requires root as well change can possibly disappear after an alsa-lib > package upgrade. Or I can use the dmix and dsnoop predefined PCMs to > put together PCMs that I can later reference in my "pcm.!default" > definition but in this case one needs to know if the card needs > dsnoop/dmix and probably other tweaks that default.conf contains. > Additionally this needs to be done for every sound card one owns. That's true. > So I would suggest the "default" PCM as defined now in the > default.conf file to be renamed to something like "alsadefault". Then > "default" PCM should be an alias to the alsadefault pcm. This will be > backwards compatible to what users have now and owners of multiple > sound devices can define their "default" pcm in asoundrc referencing > the alsadefault pcm benefiting from the good work already done and not > have to mess with a complex asoundrc file or make changes to the > system configurations files. Agreed, I've had also the same idea. But, a good name didn't come to my mind, so I didn't actually implement it. "alsadefault" PCM also sounds somewhat a system-wide default, thus might be a bit confusing. Basically it should be a default PCM definition for each card. Well... a good godfather / godmother is wanted ;) thanks, Takashi _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
