[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#399623: asoundconf: wrong /proc/asound/cards parsing

[Andreas Mohr]

Package: alsa-utils
Version: 1.0.13-1

Hello,

in the python script alsa-utils/debian/asoundconf, there's a line
	cardline = re.compile('^\d+\s*\[')
and
	card_lines.append(re.sub(r'^\d+\s*\[(\w+)\s*\].+','\\1',l))

However, my /proc/asound/cards says:
# cat /proc/asound/cards
 0 [PCI168         ]: AZF3328 - Aztech AZF3328 (PCI168)
                      Aztech AZF3328 (PCI168) at 0xb000, irq 22
 1 [au8830         ]: au8830 - Aureal Vortex au8830
                      Aureal Vortex au8830 at 0xdb100000 irq 19
 3 [V8235          ]: VIA8233 - VIA 8235
                      VIA 8235 with ALC650D at 0xe800, irq 23

thus causing the regex above to fail catastrophically
(completely empty output).

Tweaking those lines to
	cardline = re.compile('^ \d+\s*\[')
and
	card_lines.append(re.sub(r'^ \d+\s*\[(\w+)\s*\].+','\\1',l))
to include the leading space makes the output appear properly:
Names of available sound cards:
PCI168
au8830
V8235

(format change in recent versions??)

My tweak most likely isn't fully flexible yet, though...

Linux 2.6.19-rc5-mm1
ii  alsa-base                               1.0.13-1                                 ALSA driver configuration files
ii  alsa-utils                              1.0.13-1                                 ALSA utilities
ii  libasound2                              1.0.13-1                                 ALSA library


I have to admit that I'm still having a MUCH harder time with ALSA config
than it should be the case
(yes, I've been adding/improving several ALSA drivers already in recent years,
and this was supposed to become yet another improvement,
but so far I'm *STUCK*, terribly...).

Andreas Mohr