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From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
To: sylvain.bertrand@gmail.com
Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org
Subject: Re: right way to enumerate pcm devices
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2019 07:25:13 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <s5hpnrwciie.wl-tiwai@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190212203324.GA1399@freedom>

On Tue, 12 Feb 2019 21:33:24 +0100,
sylvain.bertrand@gmail.com wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 02:36:00PM +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > The entries without hints are filtered out as default.
> > i.e. a user-defined entry appears, too, if it contains the hints.
> > 
> > You can change the behavior by setting defaults.namehint.showall,
> > too.
> 
> Hi again,
> 
> I am listing the pcm devices, and for the USB mic of my webcam, I get input
> (IOID=Input) pcm devices for surroundX/frontspeakers/IEC958, which are
> actually output pcm devices.
> Why those output pcm devices are hinted as input devices?? Is this expected?
> Bug? If not, how am I supposed to select the proper input pcm devices the
> right(tm) way ?

It's only the matter of alsa-lib card config.  Just due to heuristic
reason, the secondary device is assigned as iec958 as default.  There
are explicit whitelist setup in alsa-lib/src/conf/cards/USB-Audio.conf
for the card that behave differently.  You'd need to adjust
accordingly.


Takashi

  reply	other threads:[~2019-02-13  6:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-02-12 12:33 right way to enumerate pcm devices sylvain.bertrand
2019-02-12 13:36 ` Takashi Iwai
2019-02-12 20:33   ` sylvain.bertrand
2019-02-13  6:25     ` Takashi Iwai [this message]
2019-02-13 14:13       ` sylvain.bertrand
2019-02-13 14:33         ` Takashi Iwai
2019-02-13 14:38         ` Jaroslav Kysela
2019-02-13 22:25         ` sylvain.bertrand
2019-02-13 22:43           ` sylvain.bertrand
     [not found]             ` <CA+Owze4OqfSystQ5ZNaF6sO+L-L-FceN5XBPJkqyYf7zjkp+GQ@mail.gmail.com>
2019-02-13 23:11               ` Fwd: " Joël Krähemann
2019-02-14 13:12                 ` sylvain.bertrand

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