Hi, Tony: I thought the same thing when Christopher first posted about his use of aumix. What you say is indeed true. However, it seems some group has resurrected the name for a new, cross-platform application based on something called the Open Sound Architecture. So, we've got yet more ways to get confused by Linux sound. Janina Tony Baechler writes: > Have you installed the alsa-utils package? While aumix works OK for ALSA, > it is not a good choice and I think was abandoned upstream. It uses OSS > which is the old sound system, so using it also requires the oss-compat > package. OSS stands for the open sound system and is still used on the BSD > platform, but hasn't been widely used on Linux for many years now. Either > amixer or alsamixer are better choices. I'm not sure why alsa-utils wasn't > installed automatically. Also, as you found out, aumix doesn't work with > Pulse at all, so it'll be useless in Gnome. All ALSA programs (aplay, > alsamixer, amixer) let you pick what card to use. The modification to the > configuration is a one-time fix to not disable your USB sound device. > > On 8/11/2015 1:30 AM, Kristoffer Gustafsson wrote: > >I don't really want to modify config files. > >I just want to change soundcard. > >For example if I've got two in the computer I want to choose wich card to use. > >I'll look into this. Last time I had my machine running I got no amixer at all. > >I ended up using aumix. > >/Kristoffer > > > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list -- Janina Sajka, Phone: +1.443.300.2200 sip:janina@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Email: janina@xxxxxxxxxxx Linux Foundation Fellow Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup: http://a11y.org The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Chair, Protocols & Formats http://www.w3.org/wai/pf _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list