[alsa-devel] Docking stations

Lee Revell rlrevell at joe-job.com
Wed Feb 25 07:05:03 CET 2009


On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 9:25 PM, Lennart Poettering <mznyfn at 0pointer.de> wrote:
> there's now some support to be notified about docking station events
> in the kernel. It probably would make a lot of sense if PulseAudio
> would listen for these and reprogram the alsa control stuff to switch
> over to the audio jacks of the docking station and back.
>
> I am wondering if there is any defined scheme for doing this
> switching? i.e. is there an established name for a mixer element that
> needs to be switched for this?

Good luck, it looks ugly:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/258630

;-)

Lee


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