[pulseaudio-tickets] [PulseAudio] #863: assign different device.description when more than one sink

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#863: assign different device.description when more than one sink
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 Reporter:  skierpage  |       Owner:  lennart
     Type:  defect     |      Status:  new    
Milestone:             |   Component:  daemon 
 Keywords:             |  
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 I'm trying to get sound working on Kubuntu 10.10 (KDE > Phonon > Xine >
 PulseAudio 0.9.21-63-gd3efa-dirty).  My computer has two sound outputs, a
 built-in "VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller" and a Creative Labs
 "SB Audigy" PCI card; the names in quotes are their device.product_names
 from `pacmd list-sinks`

 The problem is PA gives these sinks identical device.description strings,
 "Internal Audio Analog Stereo".  These names appear in the UI of KDE's
 System Settings > Multimedia > Phonon > Backend , so it's impossible to
 tell which is which!

 It would be friendlier if PA disambiguated the devices by assigning
 different device.descriptions.  This sounds like bug #708 (unable to
 differentiate multiple identical soundcards), but in my case the sound
 cards aren't even the same.

 A workaround according to [wiki:Modules#Sinks] is to run `update-sink-
 proplist SINKNAME device.description="NEWNAME"`.  That works for PA but it
 messed up KDE System Settings which now shows only PulseAudio Sound Server
 as a backend -- I probably have to restart KDE.

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Ticket URL: <http://pulseaudio.org/ticket/863>
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