[pulseaudio-discuss] dynamic loading for ALSA devices

[Jon Smirl]

On 7/12/07, Vasili Sviridov <vsviridov at exceede.com> wrote:
> As a side-note - it would be nice to do it like hotplug does it -
> meaning - maintain a mapping between ugly sink names and nice and
> legible sink names. (or maybe renaming sinks in runtime and maintaining
> that as well, so it works after plug/unplug).

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?

-- 
Jon Smirl
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