This remains an issue on Jaunty. I have much the same setup as the original reporter: via82xx onboard audio, and a separate SBLive card. I want to use the latter, ALSA defaults to the latter, Pulseaudio insists on using the former. pavucontrol(1), as Andreas suggested, mostly straightened the problem out for me---who would have ever thought that a *volume control* utility, with a default-device checkbox widget almost purposely hidden behind a drop-down arrow, would do the trick?
This bug *seriously* needs the importance set high. Pulseaudio has turned a hardware setup on which plain-ALSA Linux "just works" into one where the sound infrastructure does dumb things that require either significant expertise or hours of forum/Launchpad-trolling to straighten it out. Can you imagine a non-technical user running into this? In 2009?? Pulseaudio needs to default to the same device(s) that ALSA does (what earthly reason does it have to do otherwise?) and a means of selecting the output device needs to be in the default GUI. This is precisely the sort of bug that gives Linux's usability a bad name. I'm only glad I ran into this on my own system, and not that of a penguin-skeptical friend. -- The user cannot select sound card https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/229137 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
