Bug 476292 - Bad name for webcam microphone
Summary: Bad name for webcam microphone
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
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Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: pulseaudio
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Lennart Poettering
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-12-12 21:10 UTC by Bastien Nocera
Modified: 2009-03-04 11:31 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2009-03-04 11:31:00 UTC
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Description Bastien Nocera 2008-12-12 21:10:01 UTC
$ pactl list | grep description | grep USB
device.description = "USB Device 0x46d:0x990 - USB Audio"

Crappy name for a device, the one in lsusb is much better:
$ lsusb | grep QuickCam
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 046d:0990 Logitech, Inc. QuickCam Pro 9000

I know that PA gets the name from ALSA, but maybe that's a case where the name from HAL could be used.

Comment 1 Lennart Poettering 2008-12-15 12:29:09 UTC
But how should we decide whether the name from HAl or the name from ALSA is more useful?

Comment 2 Lennart Poettering 2009-02-25 03:46:47 UTC
Hmm, I think we could make PA blacklist certain names. However I wonder how an algorithm should look like that gets the lsusb/lspci name from HAL. Just going upwards in the device tree until we find an usb or pci name might be a bit risky because we might end up with strings like "Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1" then.

I'd be happy to add this if there is a reliable algorithm to find this name.

Comment 3 Lennart Poettering 2009-03-04 11:31:00 UTC
PA from git will now use the lspci/lsusb name for naming sound cards.


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