Hi Doug, I don't know a way to set up audio input and output selections from Terminal, but here are a few ideas that might help: 1. I think this setting is controlled by the preference file, "com.apple.audio.AudioMIDISetup.plist" under your account's Library/Preferences folder, although I'm not sure of this. If so, moving that file to the Trash or to your Desktop might reset things to the default input and output devices. I'm not sure this is true, and it might require a restart to take effect. But if you can log in through Terminal from another Mac, you can delete or move the file. For example:
mv Library/Preferences/com.apple.audio.AudioMIDISetup.plist ~/Desktop Use the tab completion feature of Terminal's bash shell to make typing easier -- for example, after typing the "com.apple.audio" part of the file name in the path, just type a period and the capital letter "A" and press tab to let the shell complete the filename with the correct capitalization of letters. That command will move the specified preference file from your Library/Preferences folder to your Desktop when your press "return". 2. Another thing you can do is try to unload the Soundflower kernel extension, or even remove it. Again, you'd need to restart your machine for the changes to take effect. The Soundflower kernel extension is installed in: /System/Library/Extensions/Soundflower.ext (That's slash "Systems" slash "Library" slash "Extensions" slash "Soundflower.ext") To unload this from your system using Terminal, you have to use the "sudo" command and enter your admin password: sudo kextunload /System/Library/Extensions/Soundflower.ext then enter your password at the prompt. I've also read that you may need to issue the command more than once for it to "take", which you would do by pressing up arrow and then "return" a few times. If you want to uninstall Soundflower, which I don't think you do, you could type: sudo rm -r /System/Library/Extensions/Soundflower.ext Again, you need to restart your computer for changes to take effect. 3. If you have a bootable clone of your system on an external drive, shutdown your system, connect the drive, and then start up while holding down the Option key. After about 15 seconds, press your left arrow once, and then press return. You should boot up into your cloned operating system, and have VoiceOver working under that system's defaults. Then you can figure out how to repair things on your internal hard drive's settings. HTH. Cheers, Esther On Oct 30, 2012, at 09:11, [email protected] wrote: > Helo everyone, > Does anyone know of a quick way to select the default audio inputs and > outputs on OS10? Quick way from the terminal perhaps? I was trying to route > default audio through my M-audio fasttrack interface and ended up selecting > sound flower instead. Now I have no VoiceOver audio and can't figure out how > to select the default audio settings without sited help. > > Thanks, > > Doug > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
