[pulseaudio-tickets] [PulseAudio] #691: provide real names in cards and connectors

[PulseAudio]

#691: provide real names in cards and connectors
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  Reporter:  yelo3        |       Owner:  lennart
      Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  closed 
 Milestone:               |   Component:  core   
Resolution:  wontfix      |    Keywords:         
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Changes (by lennart):

  * status:  new => closed
  * resolution:  => wontfix


Comment:

 I don't think it is particularly user-friendly to show some weird chip
 name in the UI by default. "Internal Audio" is much more descriptive for
 an audio device then anything else could be, since even people who have
 now idea about the chip they have (and almost nobody has) know exactly
 what is meant by that.

 And the naming of the connectors is nothing we really can improve. Most of
 the time we don't know if a Microphone is on the front or rear of a PC or
 how it is routed, and when we think we know it very often it is simply not
 reliable: we cannot really know how the hw is soldered. i.e. if the chip
 calls something "Front Mic" this does not mean that the manufacturer of
 your PC actually soldered it that way.

 We already have trouble enough with drivers where the "Master" slider does
 not act as one. That is a very basic thing an underlying driver should get
 right. But they don't. I am certainly not going to open another can of
 worms and start relying on front/left labelling info on mic ports.

 That said, all this information is actually configurable via udev rules
 (/lib/udev/rules.d/*pulseaudio and related rules files) and the PA alsa
 mixer config files (/usr/share/pulse/alsa-mixer/..). If you are not happy
 with the simplified names we chose you are welcome to change them locally.

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