On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 12:11:11AM +0800, Clayton wrote: > On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 14:44:59 +0100 > Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 03:46:21PM +0800, Clayton wrote: > > > <snip> > > > To solve most of my sound card headaches I bought a pair of USB > > > headphones, and a pair of high-quality USB speakers. I have also > > > found that if I blacklist the module for the internal sound card, > > > when I plug in a USB sound device it becomes the one and only > > > default sound device, and almost all software talks to it just > > > fine. (Getting some software to talk to a USB sound card in the > > > second position is non-trivial....) > > > > Now that is an interesting idea -- walk round the problem. Thanks for > > that thought. What software has problems with this, though? > > With a USB sound card as the only card in default position, I only > have had a smallish problem with mplayer that the packager should have > fixed in the next version of mplayer that comes down the pipe. > > With the onboard sound card driver loaded and the USB sound card in the > second position, you have to explicitly tell your sound application to > talk to the second ALSA device instead of the first one. I never did > figure out how to do this with mplayer, and I seem to recall that VLC > might have been an issue as well. Skype, xine and mpg123 were not > problems. [...] Thanks for that -- I must investigate the hardware.
> > <aside>This is one of the things that Windows got right: when you plug > in a USB sound device, it automatically becomes the system default for > sound playback. To me this seems to be logical and desireable behavior, > but is not what happens with Linux. I am completely ignorant of how to manage hotplug/udev, but I imagine it is really easy enough to make a linux box mimic this particular behaviour -- perhaps someone wiser will tell us how. </aside> -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
