Switching audio output to USB speakers

[Lars Noodén]

On 12/18/12 8:01 PM, Ioannis Vranos wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 7:48 PM, Ioannis Vranos
> <ioannis.vranos at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Wait, wait. Coffee has not kicked in. :-)
>>
>> Just noticed, you are talking about *speakers*. Are you using Lubuntu 12.04?
> 
> *buntu 12.04 has an audio issue, due to a nonsense kernel backport, of
> an experimental jacks kernel piece, which was out of the kernel tree.
> 
> If you are using *buntu 12.04, either try installing kernel metapackage:
> 
> linux-image-generic-lts-quantal
> 
> which is 12.10's kernel,
> 
> 
> or install *buntu 12.10.
> 
> 
> If you do the second, test with the live-cd first, to see if *buntu
> 12.10 fixes your issue indeed.

The audio works fine with the internal speaker, there is just the
challenge of finding a way to switch the output to the external, USB
speakers.

Regards,
/Lars