In the spirit of a recent thread here, I have a similar minor problem. I have an ESI Juli@ card, which PulseAudio names as "VT1720/24 [Envy24PT/HT] PCI Multi-Channel Audio Controller". I'd prefer "ESI Juli@" as ALSA suggests, and I assume most other ESI Juli@ users would also prefer that. I can provide a patch, if someone points me in the right direction. Quoting relevant lines from "pactl list" and "lspci" below: alsa.card_name = "ESI Juli@" device.product.name = "VT1720/24 [Envy24PT/HT] PCI Multi-Channel Audio Controller" device.description = "VT1720/24 [Envy24PT/HT] PCI Multi-Channel Audio Controller" module-udev-detect.discovered = "1" 03:07.0 Multimedia audio controller [0401]: VIA Technologies Inc. VT1720/24 [Envy24PT/HT] PCI Multi-Channel Audio Controller [1412:1724] (rev 01) Subsystem: Device [3031:4553] // David