On 7/12/07, Vasili Sviridov <vsviridov at exceede.com> wrote: > As a side-note - it would be nice to do it like hotplug does it - > meaning - maintain a mapping between ugly sink names and nice and > legible sink names. (or maybe renaming sinks in runtime and maintaining > that as well, so it works after plug/unplug). HAL knows that my alsa_output.usb_device_471_155_noserial_if0_alsa_playback_0 is a "Philips PSC805" and that my alsa_output.pci_device_8086_24d6_alsa_playback_0 is a "Intel ICH5 ALSA Playback Device". Could different HAL names be used instead? -- Jon Smirl jonsmirl at gmail.com