Many thanks! I change the default card with asoundconf but in Kubuntu 9.10 goes with Pulseaudio, that's why I ask you. Thanks 2009/11/14 Colin Guthrie <gmane at colin.guthr.ie> > 'Twas brillig, and mierdatutis mi at 13/11/09 22:05 did gyre and gimble: > > Hi, >> >> I'm trying to change Pulseaudio default audio card start in a shell >> script, but I don't know what I must do. >> > > There is not really such a thing as a "default" audio card in PA. The term > we use is usually "fallback" as this more accurately represents what it > means. PA remembers each application's preferred device. Thus if you play > something in e.g. mplayer and we've never seen an mplayer stream before, we > will use the "fallback" device and then save that choice in a little > database. The next time mplayer tries to play something, we first look to > see if we've got a preferred device for mplayer and if so, we use it. In > this second case the "fallback" device is not consulted. > > So, from the command line you can indeed set the fallback sink via the > command: > pacmd set-default-sink index|name > > But this will only really change the "fallback", e.g. all apps that have > played before will continue using that device. If you want to change these > previously stored preferences, the only tool that supports that currently is > the gnome-volume-control. pavucontol does not update the individual > application preferences either. > > Hope that clarifies things. > > Col > > -- > > Colin Guthrie > gmane(at)colin.guthr.ie > http://colin.guthr.ie/ > > Day Job: > Tribalogic Limited [http://www.tribalogic.net/] > Open Source: > Mandriva Linux Contributor [http://www.mandriva.com/] > PulseAudio Hacker [http://www.pulseaudio.org/] > Trac Hacker [http://trac.edgewall.org/] > > _______________________________________________ > pulseaudio-discuss mailing list > pulseaudio-discuss at mail.0pointer.de > https://tango.0pointer.de/mailman/listinfo/pulseaudio-discuss > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pulseaudio-discuss/attachments/20091114/fce2df9c/attachment.htm>
