[LAU] perhaps why some of us have more trouble w/ pulseaudio than others (ICE1712/M-audio delta problem w/ pulseaudio)

[Florian Faber]

Fons,

>> You need some sort of unique identifier for a sound card. With the RME
>> cards that was easy, as they have individual serial numbers, which I add
>> to the card's name: HDSPe_f1cd85, for example. I did this because in the
>> setups those cards are used in, it is absolutely mandatory to identify
>> the cards (probably multiple cards of the same model) correctly.
> Wouldn't the right way to do this be to let udev find out the
> serial number and then define the name that includes/uses it ?
> (not sure if the latter is possible, but reading the SN from
> /sys should be)

What would be the advantage? Lennart mentioned the same thing. How would
the sound card get the serial number added to the name that way?


Flo
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