On Wed, 25.02.09 12:14, H.S. (hs.samix at gmail.com) wrote: > Hello, > > Is it possible to give custom names to audio devices? > > Presently the audio devices have long cryptic names listed in the device > chooser. If possible I would like give these devices custom user > friendly names. For example, my Micorosft LX-3000 USB headset is listed as: > ALSA PCM on front:1(USB Audio) via DMA Only very old versions of PA created descriptions like these. The current logic uses the card name information from ALSA and tries to avoid any more technical information in that name. THe names still suck though because that creates names like "USB-Audio - USB Device 0x471:0x311". It would be much better if we could use the lspci or lsusb text. That information is available via HAL, but I don't see how to get that data correctly. i.e. we could go up in the hal tree until we find a useful description. But I am a bit afraid that this might cause us to take the description from the PCI bridge if the pci devcies connected to it lack one. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net ICQ# 11060553 http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4
