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

[Thierry Vignaud]

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...