'Twas brillig, and Colin Guthrie at 27/06/09 18:54 did gyre and gimble: > 'Twas brillig, and Timothy J Massey at 27/06/09 18:13 did gyre and gimble: >> Finally, my last question is this: is there a way to control the >> actual name and description given to the original sink? Especially in >> the short-term, I don't mind having to statically configure the >> devices in, say, default.pa, even if that means I can't hot-plug new >> devices. I would certainly do this if there are CPU or quality >> advantages to not doing the module-remap-sink. > > Well the name you give it already via sink_name, but you can change the > description which will be shown in pavucontrol via the sink_properties= > argument to the module: > sink_properties="device.description='My Preferred Name'" > > > Sadly, while this should work, the combine module will automatically > update it, instantly overwriting your customisation. > > I think the attached patch should modify the module to work for you. > > Please let me know if it works as I've not tested it :) OK, I tested it. There is a (slightly different) commit waiting in my tree for a pull :) http://colin.guthr.ie/git/pulseaudio/commit/?id=56cf900325d56b36ee574c5d0f7aa5ff03db9a70 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/]
