On 3/15/07, Mark Knecht <markknecht@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
My question is whether Alsa has a user level mechanism to allow me in a terminal, on the fly, to switch which card Gnome considers my default sound card? I was wondering about flipping a bit somewhere and directing Internet radio in my browser to the stereo instead of the wimpy PC speaker we have on my wife's box.
Not currently possible. I guess to implement this, alsa-lib would have to use inotify to watch the config files for changes, and the app would register a "sound device changed" callback that would be invoked when gnome-sound-properties writes the new .asoundrc. The callback would have to close and reopen the default PCM and resume playback. Lee
