On Tue, Feb 07, 2012 at 04:54:04PM +0400, Paul Fertser wrote:
Since alsa-lib config file describes how to best deal with the combination of chips rather than a particular notebook name (especially given same device can have different names from different vendors and at the same time some vendors are ill-minded enough to call different devices with the same name) it would seem more logical to stick to the chips' names.
That needn't follow - especially as you move into the higher end the devices get much more flexible and system concerns have a major impact on the configuration so the board in use becomes more and more important.
Mark, do you have some idea how to solve the issue at hand (having dmix on this netbook by default) better? Is quantity of maximum simultaneous playback/record PCM streams already queryable by the userspace? Somehow it happened that adding per-device config file was ok during all these years, is there a better way now?
For almost all devices there's one stream supported in each direction, if we were assuming any default that'd be it.