Howto select sound card 10.04

Tony Pursell ajp at princeswalk.fsnet.co.uk
Mon Apr 25 21:18:15 UTC 2011


On Mon, 2011-04-25 at 22:36 +0200, Franz Waldmüller wrote:
> Am 2011-04-25 16:21, schrieb calcpage at aol.com:
> > 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.blogslot.com <http://shadowfaxrant.blogslot.com>
> > Http://www.youtube.com/calcpage2009 <http://www.youtube.com/calcpage2009>
> >
> 
> KLick on "System" - "Settings" - Look for something with "sound" in its name
> There you can select the in- and output devices for recording and playback.
> 
> Franz
> 

System > Preferences > Sound is just another way of getting to the Sound
Preferences dialogue.

Tony







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