On Wed, 20.02.08 22:40, Hans de Goede (j.w.r.degoede@xxxxxx) wrote: > So our current scheme has a number of problems, which can be workaround, > but that would require some serious surgery to system-config-soundcard, and > I wonder if this is the right solution. Esp since we have been slowly > moving away from using /etc/modprobe.conf at all, to a system where udev > loads all drivers (and udev also already loads the soundrivers). s-c-s has already been removed from the default installation process. It's still around for debugging purposes. But on a normal system it shouldn't write anything to /etc/modprobe.conf anymore. > Given that pulseaudio is integrated with hal and that we are > moving to pulseaudio, I think that the solution is to stop trying to hard > assign indexes to soundcards, or to add module aliases for them to > /etc/modprobe.conf. Just let udev load the modules (as it already > does). Yes, that's the idea. > pulseaudio gives names to soundcards based on various info, which does not > include the topology of the connection to the device for example: > usb_device_d8c_201_noserial_if0_sound_card_0_alsa_playback_0 > So one could make for example an usb headset the prefered default > sound-device in pulseaudio, and then it would use that when available even > independend of in which usb port it is plugged. The current scheme of PA is ver simplistic. It's good enough for most cases, but with the changes coming to HAL/DK we will eventually be able to implement a better scheme for identifying devices by serial#, vendor/product, or path. > All we then need is a (simple) tool to change the default output device for > pulseaudio, and put that under an appropriately named menu entry under user > preferences. This is another advantage of this new scheme, the default > output device then become a per user preference instead of a system wide > settings, as it should be. That tool is already thre. Just run pavucontrol, and right click on the device you want to make the default. It already is per-user. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net ICQ# 11060553 http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
