Howto select sound card 10.04

[Tony Pursell]

On Mon, 2011-04-25 at 10:36 -0400, calcpage at aol.com wrote:
> (Oops, fixed typos)
> 
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> Subject: Howto select sound card 10.04
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> My boss, in his infinite wisdom, has seen fit to install a smartboard
> in my PC lab/classroom. I don't think he understands that I've been
> screencasting and smartboarding for years already just using a remote
> bluetooth tablet (Wacom Graphire 6x8) and wireless lapel FM mic.
> 
> Anyway, my question is: how do you select the PC sound card instead of
> the internal speakers on the mother board? I ask because the smartboad
> attaches to a PC via audio/video/ethernet and the audio cable attaches
> to the sound card. So, in Wimpoze we get sound from the nice new
> smartboard speakers in the front of the room but in Linux we get sound
> from the itty bitty internal PC speakers in the back of the room!
> 
> Sorry for such a silly question, but I can't find the setting to
> change on the Gnome desktop on my 10.04 Desktop Edition dual boot PC
> for my life!
> 
> TIA,
> A. Jorge Garcia
> Applied Math and CompSci
> Http://shadowfaxrant.blogspot.com
> Http://www.youtube.com/calcpage2009
> 
> 
> 

Have you clicked on the sound icon and had a look in Sound Preferences >
Hardware tab > Profile drop down list - to see if the output to the
smartbord is listed there?  Or am I getting it wrong insofar as it is
not even connected up?

Tony