On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 17:26 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi, > I realize this is probably better directed toward some list like > alsa-user but since I'm not a member let me try here. > > The machine here in the living room has two sound cards - one > internal and an external USB device that pumps out optical into my > home theater equipment. The internal card is the default Alsa device > and anytime I want to use the external device I have to make a Gnome > launcher to specifically point the audio to hw:1,0. > > 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. Mark, if you can afford a Squeezebox, buy one. you will not regret it. --p
