On Tue, 30.06.09 04:15, Lennart Poettering (lennart at poettering.net) wrote: > > On Sat, 20.06.09 01:07, Jost-Philip Matysik (matysik at tu-harburg.de) wrote: > > > > > Hi! > > > > Mark Greenwood wrote: > > > > > > Something I wondered about was whether it would be possible to give > > > devices user-defined names. This would help specifically when network > > > sinks are in use, so that I could send audio to 'Kitchen' instead of > > > 'powermac snapper (00:10) on mac'... trips off the tongue a little > > > easier, is all :) > > > > > > Mark > > > > Is there any news on this? For me it's just cosmetics, but I'm > > sorry to report routing her audio from "PAPLAY:STDIN" to > > "USB_0777:x3425" just to have music in the kitchen is something my > > girlfriend won't accept as practical any time soon... > > We actually do our best to find a good high-level name for all > devices. If this shows up weirdly like this please make sure that you > USB device is properly known by usb.ids. If it isn't make sure to file > a patch to that to make it well known. "lsusb" shows you the > informatin from usb.ids. And if you cannot updatre hwdata, then you can always write a little udev rule to set the SOUND_DESCRIPTION udev property for the device. PA will then use that as device description. (only 0.9.16) Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4
