On Saturday 10 February 2007 10:44, Ronny Standtke wrote: >Hi all, > >> Sounds like Redhat/Fedora's system-config-soundcard, that indeed can >> set the order. On Gentoo you can emerge that package. Also SuSE's YaST >> can do that. So i'd say this is distro-specific, not DE specific. > >OK, I downloaded and installed Fedora Core 6. Indeed, there is this > soundcard configuration tool Lee was talking about. I tested it out a > bit. Here is the not so short summary: > >The good news is that it correctly doesn't show the webcam as sound > output device. All remaining news are more or less bad. ;-) >In the sound recording device section are two "USB Audio" entries. It is > not visible which entry is the webcam and which one is the headset. In > the evil operating system the entries have distinguishable and > descriptive names (<Company> Webcam, <Company> Headset). Then use 'lsusb -vv' and drown in data but it will be there. >After selecting the headset as primary sound output device nothing > happens. All the sounds are still played using the on-board soundcard. > Logging on and off doesn't help either. I had to restart the system to > apply the settings. (I probably could have just restarted a system > service but I choose to work from a normal users perspective.) >The same problem plagues the fallback strategy. After unplugging the > headset there was no sound output anymore. Logging on and off again > didn't help. After a restart the on-board soundcard was used. > >The short summary is that with Linux we have no support from the desktop >enviroments and a vendor specific tool that fails in almost every > aspect. > >I made some proposals at the kde-linux mailing list: >http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-linux&m=116803699028792&w=2 >What do you think about this proposal? > >Greetings > >Ronny -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2007 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier. Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
