[pulseaudio-discuss] M-Audio FastTrack Pro

[Gene Heskett]

On Friday 08 January 2010, David Kågedal wrote:
>Lennart Poettering <lennart at poettering.net> writes:
>> On Thu, 07.01.10 17:31, David Kågedal (davidk at lysator.liu.se) wrote:
>>> >> Sure, I will do that. But I'm still not sure I understand why we
>>> >> aren't using then perfectly good name "M-Audio FastTrack Pro" that
>>> >> apparently is reported by ALSA in /proc/asound/cards.
>>> >
>>> > See Lennart's point 3 above. In *your* case it's nice, but apparently
>>> > in the majority of cases it's not nice and totally generic which is no
>>> > use to anyone.
>>>
>>> Yes, the USB information is nice for me. But PA shows a broken string
>>> that it seems to have invented itself. So far, nobody has been able to
>>> explain why it does that (until you gave a suggestion below). If it had
>>> simply used the USB information, I would have been happy.
>>
>> You maybe., most others not. It is a simple fact that most
>> manufacturers dont give teh USB descriptor data the love it deserves,
>> e.g. very seldomly the USB serial id is actually useful.
>
>Sure. But I'm just complaining that someone (perhaps udev) is making it
>deliberately worse, so that it isn't usefule even if the manufacturer
>gets its act together.
>
>> The USB descriptor data is available via sysfs
>> (/sys/bus/usb/devices/*-*/manufacturer and
>> /sys/bus/usb/devices/*-*/product). If you check that you will notice
>> that very often the data in those fields is not exactly useful if it
>> is available at all (in which case those files wont exist)
>
>All of them look pretty good on my system:
>
>krank% cat /sys/bus/usb/devices/*/product
>PS2 to USB Converter
>Microsoft 5-Button Mouse with IntelliEye(TM)
>FastTrack Pro
>USB2.0 Hub Controller
>O2Micro CCID SC Reader
>EHCI Host Controller
>EHCI Host Controller
>UHCI Host Controller
>UHCI Host Controller
>UHCI Host Controller
>UHCI Host Controller
>UHCI Host Controller

Just as a comment, that many 'host controllers' looks odd.  From my rather 
voluminous usb tree:
[root at coyote nitros9]# cat /sys/bus/usb/devices/*/product
USB FAST SERIAL ADAPTER
HL-2140 series
USB HS SERIAL CONVERTER
Standard USB Hub
USB2.0 Hub
EPSON Scanner 010F
USB2.0 MFP(Hi-Speed)
BCM92046DG-CL1ROM
BCM2046B1
USB Receiver
Belkin UPS
EHCI Host Controller
OHCI Host Controller

Only one of each standard here.

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