On Fri, 15 Jun 2012 11:04:30 +0200 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. > > 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. > > Btw., isn't there a button on the notebook which can mute those > speakers? > > Heiko Talk about serious sour grapes .. I have 2 sound cards one internal and a USB one with PA gives me a lot less bother than ALSA did .. Pete -- Linux 7-of-9 3.3.8-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Jun 5 15:20:32 CEST 2012 x86_64 GNU/Linux
