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

Thierry Vignaud thierry.vignaud at gmail.com
Mon Sep 19 16:27:32 CEST 2011


On 19 September 2011 16:14, 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...
>
> Yeah, but by the same token, turning off PA is obviously not part of the
> recommended config.
>
> If people turn off PA, they have to expect a less integrated solution.
>
> And it's not as if things don't work. It's just that their systems would
> require a little more configuration than before. But in turning off PA,
> that's pretty much what they are signing up for anyway.
>
> Hence my desire not to fix this "bug" when it's already fixed in the
> default setup.
>
> But if this is a show stopper for more people, I will see what we can do.

What about reverting a change :-) ?


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