better ALSA card name

[David Zeuthen]

Hi,

Sorry for the delay; been traveling for the past three weeks.

On Sat, 2007-01-13 at 21:00 +0100, Matthias Kretz wrote:
> > So if I were to ask anything of the ALSA developers it would be to add
> > another file to easily get the card name... (because it's not easy to
> > extract out of /proc/asound/cards)

Would be nice to file a bug for that.

> Until that is available here's a new patch that gets the card_id property for 
> all ALSA and OSS devices from /proc/asound/cards. (Patch against the git repo 
> this time.)
> 
> Without this patch on my computer:
> card 1: Intel
> card 2: io2
> card 3: default
> 
> With this patch:
> card 1: HDA Intel
> card 2: Alesis io|2
> card 3: C-Media USB Headphone Set

I've committed this patch for now. Thanks.

      David