[pulseaudio-discuss] dynamic loading for ALSA devices

Vasili Sviridov vsviridov at exceede.com
Thu Jul 12 16:56:56 PDT 2007


Lennart Poettering wrote:
> On Thu, 12.07.07 19:42, Jon Smirl (jonsmirl at gmail.com) wrote:
>
> Hi
>
>   
>> HAL knows that my
>> alsa_output.usb_device_471_155_noserial_if0_alsa_playback_0 is a
>> "Philips PSC805" and that my
>> alsa_output.pci_device_8086_24d6_alsa_playback_0 is a "Intel ICH5 ALSA
>> Playback Device".
>>
>> Could different HAL names be used instead?
>>     
>
> You have to discuss this with HAL upstream. We just use these strings
> to have a unique identifier for each device that stays the same as
> long as the device is around. We basically just take what HAL gives us.
>
> Lennart
>
>   
Shouldn't it be possible to know everything HAL knows since you're using 
native API?

V.



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