On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 9:39 AM, Max TenEyck Woodbury <m...@mtew.isa-geek.net> wrote: > On 12/11/2012 10:46 AM, Henri Verbeet wrote: >> >> On 11 December 2012 16:05, <joerg-cyril.hoe...@t-systems.com> wrote: >>> >>> Cost to users: >>> >>> Users with a working ALSA device "default" should experience no >>> drawback, only benefits. I believe this is the vast majority of users. >>> >>> Users that edit their ~/.asoundrc to define other devices without >>> simultaneously overriding !default will have to additionally edit the >>> Wine registry to name their working ALSA capture and render devices, >>> e.g. "asnoop" and "amix". >>> >> It will also pretty much just remove device selection on setup with >> multiple audio devices, which is actually fairly common these days >> with USB audio devices and HDMI outputs on graphics cards. I think the >> correct approach would to work with upstream ALSA to fix things, >> instead of just removing device enumeration. >> >> > I do not think this is a particularly good idea. I do have two sound > systems on my machine and I have assigned each to different roles. That > seems to work quite well. What does not work well is leaving the role > set to 'default'. That results in the selection of the highest latency > device with corresponding stutters and over-runs. The current > requirement for selecting an output device is mildly annoying, but no > where near as annoying as being forced to use a faulty device.
You'd still be able to select a different device in the registry. -- -Austin
