On Mon, 17 Dec 2001, Paul Davis wrote:
> >I think that it's nonsense to force average users to study the
> >alsa driver architecture and learn a format of the configuration
> >file (they just don't know about the existence of such file) to
>
> "average" users have 1 sound card. "default" will work for them.
What about webcams ? Many of them have built-in microphones.
>
> >perform such trivial task as to point the right sound card to
> >be used!
>
> "trivial"? clearly, you are working entirely in a world filled with
> consumer-style devices and consumer-style applications. in such a
> situation, perhaps, just perhaps, "pointing to the right sound card"
> is "trivial". but in general, this is not a trivial task. does the
> user want to share access to the soundcard with other application?
> does the user want to use *part* of an existing multichannel card for
> your application? does the user want to use a soundcard whose sample
> rate is controlled by an external device, and cannot be set by the
> application? and so on and so forth ... you cannot infer what the
> possible PCM devices are in general from looking at the installed
> hardware.
>
> there will be other programmers who will write good, simple
> configuration tools to create and edit ~/.asoundrc. why are you trying
> to sidestep their work by using a hack like "plughw:N,0" ?
Just to make sure there is no misunderstanding - even with .asoundrc I can
still use hw:CARD=%i to enumerate physical sound devices, right ?
Vladimir Dergachev
>
> --p
>
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