Creative MP3+

Ikke eikke at eikke.com
Wed Feb 9 04:21:39 PST 2005


On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 12:23 +0100, Pozsár Balázs wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 12:22:05PM +0100, Ikke wrote:
> > On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 20:04 -0500, David Zeuthen wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 23:57 +0000, Richard Hughes wrote:
> > > > Note my intel8x0 doesn't have anything dramatic under HAL either. Should
> > > > HAL support soundcards, 
> > > 
> > > Yeah, we should support the ALSA devices in hal (though I'm not sure how
> > > much value it adds, managing sound is much more difficult than just
> > > discovering ALSA devices).
> > Discover sound devices so one can generate a list of possible output
> > devices wor a gstreamer-based media player, or GST itself querying HAL
> > what soundcards are available, etc?
> 
> Isn't that functionality already available in alsa-lib?
I don't know Alsa, but I guess it is.
HAL is some standardised hardware repository of the system though, so I
think its "logical" to get a list of soundcards out of HAL, just like
you could get a list of NICs, USB Storage devices,...

Ikke

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