Hi, over the past few days, I have been working on integrating the Chromebook 13 CB5-311 from Acer with userspace ALSA and Pulseaudio. Support for it using the alsa-mixer module is far from perfect, so I decided to go with ALSA UCM instead. There are a few things that I currently can't get working with alsa-ucm as well as alsa-mixer. First, the device names are taken as provided from the UCM config and are not localized. alsa-mixer.c's path_verify and option_verify functions provide description maps that lead to using localized names for devices, which is much nicer for users. I would like to have a similar feature for UCM. Can anyone suggest a proper way to do this? Also, alsa-mixer's configuration will provide a device.icon_name that is appropriate for each type of device, which results in such nice icons being displayed in e.g. GNOME's sound control settings. There is no mechanism in place to have something equivalent with UCM. Can anyone suggest a proper way to get this going? Similarly, there is no way to report the form factor of a device, which is used by e.g. GNOME-Shell volume control[0] in the tray. It falls back to matching a "headphone" string to decide whether to go with a headphones or speaker icon. Note that there is no better way to do this in alsa-mixer and the only form factors reported currently come from the udev module, that gets the info from udev matching USB/PCI/etc device strings. Cheers! [0]: https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-shell/tree/js/ui/status/volume.js#n171 -- Paul Kocialkowski, developer of low-level free software for embedded devices Website: https://www.paulk.fr/ Coding blog: https://code.paulk.fr/ Git repositories: https://git.paulk.fr/ https://git.code.paulk.fr/ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 801 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pulseaudio-discuss/attachments/20160922/2d4eaee4/attachment.sig>
