Alsa state chooser

[Alastair Johnson]

On Thursday 29 January 2009, TL Mieszkowski wrote:
> Al Johnson wrote:
> > On Wednesday 28 January 2009, TL Mieszkowski wrote:
> >> KaZeR wrote:
> >> > First example on top of my head : you are listening to music via your
> >> > headset, and you unplug it : if in a public place, it might be
> >>
> >> convenient
> >>
> >> > to
> >> > pause media player to avoid bothering your neighboors. My other phone
> >> > behaves like that and i find it convenient and respectful for the
> >> > other people.
> >>
> >> I'm nobody, but that is so contrived it comes no where near convincing
> >> me that such a non-UNIXy system is the right way.
> >
> > Contrived? It's an example of good behaviour by an existing phone, so
> > it's a
> > real world example.
>
> Actually, who cares if it's contrived or not? I thought that was what
> /dev/input/eventX was for.

It is on the Freerunner and Neo1973, but probably isn't the same device on the 
a780, the e-ten glofiish M800 or any of the other devices FSO may support in 
future. Remember FSO is an abstraction layer for smartphones in general, not 
Openmoko in particular.