Ubuntu Sound USB

[Tony Arnold]

Harry,

On Sat, 2005-08-27 at 10:09 +0100, Harry Mills wrote:
> Thanks very much. Now I have snd-usb-audio installed is there any way to
> control which applications output though the headset and which through
> the speakers? Also how do you switch to usb audio?

Glad you got it compiled and installed.

As to switching, there does not seem to be a neat way to control this
from what I can see. If you plug a headset into a USB socket and then
run Totem, it will use the headset rather than your speakers. You can
pick which device is being controlled by the volume control from the
menu, but it does not alter which output device is in use.

Some apps have a dialogue box where you can select the sound device.
They usually default to /dev/dsp and the USB headset usually appears
as /dev/dsp1. I installed this to use Skype, and that is configurable.

If you are using gnome and the esound daemon, then you can specify the
device to esd using the -d option. I think this can also be put in the
config file (/etc/esound/esd.conf). But this seems clumsy to me.

I'm copying this to the list and maybe others can chip in with some
advice.

Regards,
Tony.
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