#863: assign different device.description when more than one sink
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Reporter: skierpage | Owner: lennart
Type: defect | Status: new
Milestone: | Component: daemon
Keywords: |
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I'm trying to get sound working on Kubuntu 10.10 (KDE > Phonon > Xine >
PulseAudio 0.9.21-63-gd3efa-dirty). My computer has two sound outputs, a
built-in "VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller" and a Creative Labs
"SB Audigy" PCI card; the names in quotes are their device.product_names
from `pacmd list-sinks`
The problem is PA gives these sinks identical device.description strings,
"Internal Audio Analog Stereo". These names appear in the UI of KDE's
System Settings > Multimedia > Phonon > Backend , so it's impossible to
tell which is which!
It would be friendlier if PA disambiguated the devices by assigning
different device.descriptions. This sounds like bug #708 (unable to
differentiate multiple identical soundcards), but in my case the sound
cards aren't even the same.
A workaround according to [wiki:Modules#Sinks] is to run `update-sink-
proplist SINKNAME device.description="NEWNAME"`. That works for PA but it
messed up KDE System Settings which now shows only PulseAudio Sound Server
as a backend -- I probably have to restart KDE.
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Ticket URL: <http://pulseaudio.org/ticket/863>
PulseAudio <http://pulseaudio.org/>
The PulseAudio Sound Server
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