[Mageia-dev] [changelog] cauldron core/release sound-scripts-0.61-2.mga2

Mon Sep 19 12:06:39 CEST 2011

On 19 September 2011 11:44, Colin Guthrie <mageia at colin.guthr.ie> wrote:
+>>> Did you fixed the war against webcam another way?
+>>
+>> Is this a problem of webcam mics not working if they are present during
+>> boot? If not, can you remember the problem better?
+>>
+>> If so, no I've not fixed, but will find an official way that we can
+>> submit upstream.
+>
+> Whoops, it seems this conversation went off list accidentally.
+>
+> TV clarified that the problem the snd-usb-audio modprobe rule solved was
+> that of webcams getting the card0 slot on boot and pushing the normal,
+> built in audio system to card1.
+>
+> As this problem attempts to resolve the underlying limitations of alsa
+> (not preserving the audio device order) in a generic way (specific
+> index= arguments could be added to your own specific hardware to solve
+> it also), and considering that device order really shouldn't matter when
+> PulseAudio is used (it has it's own built in system for determining the
+> "priority" of devices when a first boot with a new user is encountered
+> so that the correct defaults will be picked on first boot and there
+> after it's the user's choice), I'm not really inclined to attempt to fix
+> this "bug".
+>
+> If people feel super strongly about it I can look into it, but I think
+> it's really a matter of "tough love" for the non-PA case if it means we
+> have to put in lots of crazy work arounds like this.
+>
+> Opinions welcome.
+
+Not all people use PA.
+We even have options in draksound in order to disable it...
+Hence we must still support the case were PA isn't around...
+