better ALSA card name

[Danny Kukawka]

On Tuesday 09 January 2007 17:04, Matthias Kretz wrote:
> On Tuesday 09 January 2007 16:36, Danny Kukawka wrote:
> > As your patch looks you use a older version of HAL code (nearly a half
> > year old). I would propose you test your hardware with a newer HAL
> > version or HAL git before we can discuss this code, since we had some
> > changes in the ALSA code.
>
> Argh. I did a CVS up in my hal dir to be sure to be up to date but didn't
> consider that you don't use CVS anymore...
>
> I actually tested it with the Ubuntu package from edgy (0.5.7.1-0ubuntu17),
> where I added the patch to the debian dir. Is that recent enough?

0.5.7.1 is now also more than 5 months old code. I would like to see if with a 
newer HAL (and maybe an actual kernel) this would give the same info.

> From the few tests I could make (one internal soundcard, two external USB
> soundcards) it seems that it's only USB devices where the information is
> too sparse. My internal soundcard is easy to recognize from the output of
> HAL.

IMO it would the best to get the alsa/kernel developer to export this info to 
sysfs instead of parse deprecated proc information.

Danny