[pulseaudio-tickets] [PulseAudio] #139: HAL module only adds the first ALSA device of each card

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#139: HAL module only adds the first ALSA device of each card
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  Reporter:  juergbi        |       Owner:  lennart 
      Type:  enhancement    |      Status:  reopened
  Priority:  normal         |   Milestone:          
 Component:  module-alsa-*  |    Severity:  normal  
Resolution:                 |    Keywords:          
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Comment (by triss):

 I own an m-audio fasttrack pro, which, as far as alsa goes, is 2
 devices:[[BR]]
 -1 stereo output balanced/unbalanced (hw0,0)[[BR]]-1 stereo output
 unbalanced/spdif + 2 inputs balanced/unbalanced


 {{{
 card 1: Pro [FastTrack Pro], device 0: USB Audio [USB Audio]
   Subdevices: 1/1
   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
 card 1: Pro [FastTrack Pro], device 1: USB Audio [USB Audio #1]
   Subdevices: 1/1
   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

 }}}


 this card is designed with the idea that you can choose any of the outputs
 or output/input combinations. However, the pulse autodetection will add
 only one of these. Now I can add the other device manually of course, but,
 since this is a usb device, that will cause pulse to not come up if the
 device is not connected (eg on the road, when I use the builtin card of
 the laptop), which means I have to either edit the default.pa file each
 time, or add the second m-audio device manually each time, both options
 being somewhat un-elegant...

 There may be other devices like this, and while I agree that not everyone
 will want all subdevices to be in pulse, maybe an option could be created
 to tell the autodetect/autodetect hal modules whether you'd want it to add
 a lsubdevices or not?

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