Bug#598702: gnome-volume-control: cryptic device display

[Mathieu Malaterre]

On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 11:36 AM, Josselin Mouette <joss at debian.org> wrote:
> Le vendredi 01 octobre 2010 à 11:20 +0200, Mathieu Malaterre a écrit :
>> i, when plugging a Philips+Mic USB cam, gnome-volume-control display a cryptic
>> name for it.
>> Instead of something like 'Philips Bla', it says: USB Device 0x0471:0x0310
>> (Alsa Mixer)
>>
>> It seems gnome-volume-control is not using information from usbids (usbutils
>> packages), since Ids can be found:
>
> Well, of course it does.
> Is usbutils installed, and at which version?

$ apt-cache policy usbutils
usbutils:
  Installed: 0.87-5
  Candidate: 0.87-5
  Version table:
 *** 0.87-5 0
        500 http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ squeeze/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status


Thanks,
-- 
Mathieu