On Mon, 24 Apr 2017, at 08:36 PM, Tanu Kaskinen wrote: > Previously, if front:x didn't work, we would try to use hw:x for analog > stereo output. There's no guarantee that hw:x is an analog output, > however. For example, the Intel HDMI LPE driver uses hw:x for HDMI > output, and PulseAudio incorrectly created analog profiles for that > card, because front:x doesn't work but hw:x does. > > This patch changes things so that the analog stereo mapping doesn't any > more use hw:x as a fallback. A separate "unknown stereo" fallback > mapping is added to handle the rare case where hw:x is the only PCM > device that works. > > BugLink: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100488 > --- I recall that front: actually adds a softvol on top of hw: (in some cases?), and we actually wanted to move to hw: always. Do we know if that's still true? -- Arun
