[Mageia-dev] [changelog] cauldron core/release sound-scripts-0.61-2.mga2

[Maarten Vanraes]

Op maandag 03 oktober 2011 10:27:02 schreef Colin Guthrie:
> 'Twas brillig, and Maarten Vanraes at 19/09/11 11:32 did gyre and gimble:
> >> On 19 September 2011 11:44, Colin Guthrie <mageia at colin.guthr.ie> wrote:
> >>>>> Did you fixed the war against webcam another way?
> >>>> 
> >>>> Is this a problem of webcam mics not working if they are present
> >>>> during boot? If not, can you remember the problem better?
> >>>> 
> >>>> If so, no I've not fixed, but will find an official way that we can
> >>>> submit upstream.
> >>> 
> >>> Whoops, it seems this conversation went off list accidentally.
> >>> 
> >>> TV clarified that the problem the snd-usb-audio modprobe rule solved
> >>> was that of webcams getting the card0 slot on boot and pushing the
> >>> normal, built in audio system to card1.
> >>> 
> >>> As this problem attempts to resolve the underlying limitations of alsa
> >>> (not preserving the audio device order) in a generic way (specific
> >>> index= arguments could be added to your own specific hardware to solve
> >>> it also), and considering that device order really shouldn't matter
> >>> when PulseAudio is used (it has it's own built in system for
> >>> determining the "priority" of devices when a first boot with a new
> >>> user is encountered so that the correct defaults will be picked on
> >>> first boot and there after it's the user's choice), I'm not really
> >>> inclined to attempt to fix this "bug".
> >>> 
> >>> If people feel super strongly about it I can look into it, but I think
> >>> it's really a matter of "tough love" for the non-PA case if it means we
> >>> have to put in lots of crazy work arounds like this.
> >>> 
> >>> Opinions welcome.
> >> 
> >> Not all people use PA.
> >> We even have options in draksound in order to disable it...
> >> Hence we must still support the case were PA isn't around...
> > 
> > can something be done with udev rules, like it happens with other types
> > of devices?
> 
> I'm not sure udev rules will fix this.
> 
> I guess we could provide some default modprobe rule that just left space
> for the device 0...
> 
> http://alsa.opensrc.org/MultipleCards#Reordering_the_driver_for_a_particula
> r_card
> 
> options snd slots=,snd-usb-audio
> 
> 
> These rules could only be used when PA is not used (via sound profile
> symlinks)
> 
> That will probably cover most bases and if users want to have more
> configuration when they do not use PA then they can write their own
> modprobe rules. I'd say that's an acceptable trade off.
> 
> WDYT?
> 
> Col


what i mean is to have some kind of udev rule generator, so that the ones you 
had when you started at first are kept in that order (they still can be added 
or removed, but the existing ones will keep their device name?