On Wed, 2017-04-26 at 14:19 +0530, Arun Raghavan wrote: > 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. Using hw: always seems like a bad idea (for the reasons described in this patch). > Do we know if that's still true? At least I don't know. -- Tanu https://www.patreon.com/tanuk
