On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 5:04 PM, Heiko Baums <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Am Fri, 15 Jun 2012 10:17:45 +0300 > schrieb Chris Sakalis <chrissakalis@xxxxxxxxx>: > >> Hello, >> pulseaudio[1] has that functionality. You should check it out. On KDE >> , Kmix supports pulseaudio and I am pretty sure it support auto >> switching too. > > PulseAudio is more or less crap. It still doesn't support > (semi-)professional audio cards. > > If you don't really need it's super-duper extra functions like > gaplessly moving a stream from one sound card to another you better > don't bother with PA. It rather makes things worse than better. Yes, why not repeat that opinion in every thread where pulse is brought up? Its not like its repetitive. > > I don't have a solution for the original question, because I don't use > two sound cards at the same time, but there are other and better ways to > disable the internal notebook speakers. > > Usually you can choose in every application which sound card to be used > (sometimes in it's config files). I guess there are software mixers for > every desktop environment which let you choose the sound card, which > shall be used. Which sounds an awful lot like slimmed-down pulseaudio to me. At the OP - pulseaudio may (or may not) help in your situation. The 'default' device is not the same as a Windows default device in the sense that currently playing streams will not be automatically moved. I use a script to do that (change default device and move all streams, I think I may even have posted it up on the pulse wiki), but (AFAIK) there aren't any 'hooks' for activating such scripts within pulseaudio when a new card is detected. Not sure if udev can do that, I just press a shortcut to run the script when I plug in my external headphones/sound card.
