PulseAudio and sound apps (was: Re: Orphaning a few packages)

[Fernando Lopez-Lezcano]

On Fri, 2009-04-24 at 19:00 +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> On Fri, 24.04.09 09:44, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano (nando at ccrma.Stanford.EDU) wrote:
> 
> > I have to document this workaround in my Planet CCRMA installation pages
> > to make the overall system usable. It is interesting to observe how,
> > over the years, Fedora gets closer and closer to a usable out of the box
> > sound experience for Planet CCRMA users and then, suddenly, we are all
> > back to editing system files as root to make it usable again. 
> 
> Please update those documents and teach folks to use the 
> card names instead of the card index.

What would be the name that corresponds to hw:x, and how do I find it?
-- Fernando