On 19 September 2011 11:44, Colin Guthrie <[email protected]> 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...
