Proposal: stop configuring soundcards through /etc/modprobe.conf

[Hans de Goede]

Lennart Poettering wrote:
> On Wed, 20.02.08 22:40, Hans de Goede (j.w.r.degoede at hhs.nl) wrote:
> 
>> So our current scheme has a number of problems, which can be workaround, 
>> but that would require some serious surgery to system-config-soundcard, and 
>> I wonder if this is the right solution. Esp since we have been slowly 
>> moving away from using /etc/modprobe.conf at all, to a system where udev 
>> loads all drivers (and udev also already loads the soundrivers).
> 
> s-c-s has already been removed from the default installation
> process. It's still around for debugging purposes. But on a normal
> system it shouldn't write anything to /etc/modprobe.conf anymore.
> 

Good!

<snip>

>> All we then need is a (simple) tool to change the default output device for 
>> pulseaudio, and put that under an appropriately named menu entry under user 
>> preferences. This is another advantage of this new scheme, the default 
>> output device then become a per user preference instead of a system wide 
>> settings, as it should be.
> 
> That tool is already thre. Just run pavucontrol, and right click on
> the device you want to make the default. It already is per-user.
> 

Ah, good.

2 points though:

1) I'm not sure its obvious to end users that the default output device can be
    set from volume control, maybe we should add the same capabilities to
    papreferences?

2) I think we should be giving the pulseaudio tools more generic names, an
    average user probably has no idea what pa is, and this might not use menu
    entries with pa in the name.

Regards,

Hans