On Sun, 7 Dec 2008, Jim Higson wrote: > > Hi, > > I don't have a landline so I talk a lot on Skype using my USB headset. This > is great, but sometimes I want to put it on speaker, like when I'm on hold > at my bank for a long time. > > I don't need to switch the mic, just the speakers. Then I can put my headset > down for a while and get on with something more useful than standing near > my computer listening to hold music. > > So, what I really want is an ALSA output device that defaults to my headset > but I can switch on the fly to my speakers and back again without > disrupting the call. Can it be done? > > For info, my speakers are fed by a normal PCI soundcard (an Audigy) through > a hifi amplifier. The headset is a fairly generic USB model. I'm on Ubuntu > Hardy. Not sure what your system is. YOu do not tell us. Many soundcards have only one output-- the line out. Thus you can uplub the headphoens and pub in speakers. But if that is not your situation, you might want to tell us. For example your computer might be a laptop with an internal PC speaker On some there is a hardware switch inside which kills the pc speaker when the headphones are plugged in. Thus uplugging the headphones would do what you wanted. > > -- William G. Unruh | Canadian Institute for| Tel: +1(604)822-3273 Physics&Astronomy | Advanced Research | Fax: +1(604)822-5324 UBC, Vancouver,BC | Program in Cosmology | unruh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Canada V6T 1Z1 | and Gravity | www.theory.physics.ubc.ca/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The future of the web can't happen without you. Join us at MIX09 to help pave the way to the Next Web now. Learn more and register at http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;208669438;13503038;i?http://2009.visitmix.com/ _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
