Howto select sound card 10.04

[Ric Moore]

On Mon, 2011-04-25 at 10:21 -0400, calcpage at aol.com wrote:
> 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!

Install the pavucontrol package. Then use it to select what and where
things should be piped to. Just open a terminal and type pavucontol. 
I add it to my taskbar as well. 

Really sweet. You can change input/output on the fly, between any of
your sound devices. Without it, you're stuck, if you are running pulse
(most likely) On another thread I mentioned it really needs to be
installed by default. I think you will be a happy camper. Ric


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