[pulseaudio-discuss] [MAINTAINERS!] pulseaudio needs udev-extras dependency

[Lennart Poettering]

On Fri, 17.04.09 16:34, Lennart Poettering (lennart at poettering.net) wrote:

> Maintainers,
> 
> not sure if I mentioned this already: it is highly recommended to add
> a dependency on a recent udev-extras snapshot to your PA 0.9.15
> package that includes the ALSA modules.
> 
> The pci-db/usb-db tools of udev-extras set a couple of device
> properties that are then used by PA to augment the sink/source
> properties.

Oh, and in case that wasn't obvious. Those tools from udev-extras need
pci.ids/usb.ids accessible during early bootup. In case your distro
supports /usr on a different partition you thus need to make sure that
those two files are moved to /lib/hwdata or a similar directory.

Lennart

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