[linux-audio-user] Re: Gentoo: Alsa/Snd-usb-audio not working anymore

Lee Revell rlrevell at joe-job.com
Tue Nov 7 19:54:50 EST 2006


On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 19:40 -0500, Paul Davis wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 19:33 -0500, Lee Revell wrote:
> > On Wed, 2006-11-08 at 01:24 +0100, David Causse wrote:
> > > IMHO card number should be static and setup by system conf (index=xx
> > > module option), that sounds much cleaner to me.
> > 
> > How could this possibly be cleaner or simpler than addressing devices by
> > name like every other OS does?
> 
> what happens in ALSA when you install two devices of the same type?
> 

IIRC this currently does not work unless you use module params to set a
unique ID.  I don't have hw to test it.

I believe udev can also do this for you.  Not sure how well distros
implement it - last time I checked not well.

What happens on other OSes with multiple identical devices?

Lee






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