> 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...
can something be done with udev rules, like it happens with other types of devices?
