What happens is the following: Gnome settings' UI shows device.description by default. This value is taken from udev, key ID_MODEL_FROM_DATABASE. The firewire udev device does not set this value, so it falls back looking for the parent device. The parent device, the controller has an ID_MODEL_FROM_DATABASE set, which in my case is "Motherboard". So the firewire card ends up with the name "Motherboard".
The ID_MODEL_FROM_DATABASE is probably set (for the firewire controller) by udev/systemd, see the "hwdb" directory of systemd sources. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to pulseaudio in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1381475 Title: Firewire sound card registered by the name of the fw controller Status in “pulseaudio” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: I am testing the new snd-firewire ALSA module which is currently getting accepted into the kernel. I have noticed that while ALSA recognizes the correct name for the card, PulseAudio displays another, wrong name, which is apparently the name of the FireWire controller through which the sound card is connected. $ aplay -l **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices **** card 0: FW [PHASE 88 Rack FW], device 0: BeBoB [PHASE 88 Rack FW PCM] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 $ pacmd list-sinks Welcome to PulseAudio! Use "help" for usage information. >>> 4 sink(s) available. [...] index: 2 name: <alsa_output.firewire-0x000aac0300592827.10-channels> driver: <module-alsa-card.c> flags: HARDWARE DECIBEL_VOLUME LATENCY DYNAMIC_LATENCY state: SUSPENDED suspend cause: IDLE priority: 9000 volume: 0: 100% 1: 100% 2: 100% 3: 100% 4: 100% 5: 100% 6: 100% 7: 100% 8: 100% 9: 100% 0: 0,00 dB 1: 0,00 dB 2: 0,00 dB 3: 0,00 dB 4: 0,00 dB 5: 0,00 dB 6: 0,00 dB 7: 0,00 dB 8: 0,00 dB 9: 0,00 dB balance 0,00 base volume: 100% 0,00 dB volume steps: 65537 muted: no current latency: 0,00 ms max request: 0 KiB max rewind: 0 KiB monitor source: 5 sample spec: s16le 10ch 44100Hz channel map: front-left,front-right,rear-left,rear-right,front-center,lfe,side-left,side-right,aux0,aux1 used by: 0 linked by: 0 configured latency: 0,00 ms; range is 0,50 .. 185,76 ms card: 3 <alsa_card.firewire-0x000aac0300592827> module: 8 properties: alsa.resolution_bits = "16" device.api = "alsa" device.class = "sound" alsa.class = "generic" alsa.subclass = "generic-mix" alsa.name = "PHASE 88 Rack FW PCM" alsa.id = "BeBoB" alsa.subdevice = "0" alsa.subdevice_name = "subdevice #0" alsa.device = "0" alsa.card = "0" alsa.card_name = "PHASE 88 Rack FW" alsa.long_card_name = "TerraTec Electronic Gmb PHASE 88 Rack FW (id:3, rev:1), GUID 000aac0300592827 a" alsa.driver_name = "snd_bebob" device.bus_path = "pci-0000:01:09.0" sysfs.path = "/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:09.0/0000:01:09.0/fw2/fw2.0/sound/card0" udev.id = "firewire-0x000aac0300592827" device.bus = "firewire" device.vendor.name = "Texas Instruments" device.product.name = "TSB43AB22A IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link) [iOHCI-Lynx]" device.string = "hw:0" device.buffering.buffer_size = "163840" device.buffering.fragment_size = "81920" device.access_mode = "mmap+timer" device.profile.name = "10-channels" device.profile.description = "10 Channels" device.description = "TSB43AB22A IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link) [iOHCI-Lynx] 10 Channels" alsa.mixer_name = "PHASE 88 Rack FW" module-udev-detect.discovered = "1" device.icon_name = "audio-card-firewire" PulseAudio 1:4.0-0ubuntu11 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/1381475/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
