On 7/12/07, Lennart Poettering <lennart at poettering.net> wrote: > On Thu, 12.07.07 19:42, Jon Smirl (jonsmirl at gmail.com) wrote: > > Hi > > > 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? > > You have to discuss this with HAL upstream. We just use these strings > to have a unique identifier for each device that stays the same as > long as the device is around. We basically just take what HAL gives us. The nice names are the HAL info.product attribute. -- Jon Smirl jonsmirl at gmail.com
