Bug#449342: linphone: no way to enter "default:1" or other custom string as a sound device

[Alexander E. Patrakov]

Package: linphone
Version: 1.7.1-3
Severity: normal
Tags: upstream

The "Ring sound device" preference is a drop-down list without the
possibility to enter something custom. This is bad, because there is no
way to use a non-default sound card with wrappers such as plug or
softvol that ALSA provides to all well-written applications (that open
"default:1" as a sound device instead of "hw:1").

Also, it (wrongly) lists "ALSA: SAA7134", which is a capture-only device.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ru_RU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages linphone depends on:
ii  libasound2               1.0.14a-2       ALSA library
ii  libatk1.0-0              1.20.0-1        The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libavcodec1d             0.cvs20070307-6 ffmpeg codec library
ii  libc6                    2.6.1-1+b1      GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2                1.4.10-1        The Cairo 2D vector 
graphics libra
ii  libfontconfig1           2.4.2-1.2       generic font configuration 
library
ii  libglib2.0-0             2.14.1-5        The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk2.0-0              2.12.1-1        The GTK+ graphical user 
interface
ii  liblinphone1             1.7.1-3         linphone web phone's 
library (supp
ii  libmediastreamer0        1.7.1-3         linphone web phone's media 
library
ii  libogg0                  1.1.3-2         Ogg Bitstream Library
ii  libortp5                 1.7.1-3         Real-time Transport 
Protocol stack
ii  libosip2-3               2.2.2-3.1       Session Initiation Protocol 
(SIP)
ii  libpango1.0-0            1.18.3-1        Layout and rendering of 
internatio
ii  libspeex1                1.1.12-3        The Speex Speech Codec
ii  libtheora0               1.0~beta2-1     The Theora Video 
Compression Codec
ii  libx11-6                 2:1.0.3-7       X11 client-side library
ii  libxcursor1              1:1.1.9-1       X cursor management library
ii  libxext6                 1:1.0.3-2       X11 miscellaneous extension 
librar
ii  libxfixes3               1:4.0.3-2       X11 miscellaneous 'fixes' 
extensio
ii  libxi6                   2:1.1.3-1       X11 Input extension library
ii  libxinerama1             1:1.0.2-1       X11 Xinerama extension library
ii  libxrandr2               2:1.2.2-1       X11 RandR extension library
ii  libxrender1              1:0.9.4-1       X Rendering Extension 
client libra
ii  linphone-nox             1.7.1-3         web phone

linphone recommends no packages.

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Alexander E. Patrakov