'Twas brillig, and Richard Shaw at 18/08/09 15:36 did gyre and gimble: > On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 8:57 AM, Lennart > Poettering<lennart at poettering.net> wrote: >>> load-module module-alsa-sink device=hw:0,1 format=s16le rate=48000 >>> channels=2 sink_name=digital. >> Don't use "hw:xxxx" devices. Always use high-level devices such as >> "spdif:xxx". The former won't set up your controls correctly, the >> latter will. > > In reviewing the wiki I noticed the following: > --- > module-alsa-sink > > Provides a playback sink for devices supported by the Advanced Linux > Sound Architecture (ALSA). The sink name defaults to alsa_output. > > In addition to the general device driver options described above this > module supports: > > device > > The ALSA device to use. (defaults to "hw:0,0") > > fragments > > The desired fragments when opening the device. (defaults to 12) > > fragment_size > > The desired fragment size in bytes when opening the device > (defaults to 1024) > --- > > Perhaps it should be updated since the device section would lead one > to believe that the hw:x,x nomenclature is the proper way to set the > device argument. I don't think at this point I'm enough of an expert > on PA to do it otherwise I would volunteer. Actually looking at the code in alsa-sink.c the default device is not "default" which seems like it's asking for trouble if alsa is routed to PA :s The wiki is actually pretty out of date overall with regards to module documentation... I wonder if we can do something code based to automatically update it (e.g. generate the wiki docs from the doxygen docs in some capacity...) Hmmmmm Col -- Colin Guthrie gmane(at)colin.guthr.ie http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited [http://www.tribalogic.net/] Open Source: Mandriva Linux Contributor [http://www.mandriva.com/] PulseAudio Hacker [http://www.pulseaudio.org/] Trac Hacker [http://trac.edgewall.org/]
