'Twas brillig, and Whit Blauvelt at 02/09/10 05:21 did gyre and gimble: > Hi, > > This is on an Ubuntu 10.4 system, with an internal sound card I don't use at > all, and a USB headset with mic that isn't always plugged in. The goal is, > when it's freshly plugged in, to have it work without extra steps. I have > that working for the earphones, but not the mic. > > To get it the USB headset listed as card-0 rather than card-1 I created a > file /etc/modutils/sound_cards with the following: > > alias snd-card-0 snd-usb-audio > alias snd-card-1 snd-via82xx-modem > > That worked, for whatever it's worth. Then in System > Preferences > > PulseAudio Preference (which I think came into the system from something > extra I installed while mucking with this) I went to Simultaneous Output and > enabled that. Then in System > Preferences > Sound > Output I selected > "Simultaneous output to ..." which unlike selecting the single output device > as the USB headset, persists when the headset is unplugged and so works > right away when it's plugged back in. > > In System > Preference > Hardware I disabled the internal card (for what > that's worth). > > Here's the problem I haven't solved. In System > Preferences > Sound > Input > the listing for the USB device comes back soon after it's plugged in again. > And it's the only listing there. But the thing's not checked! My .pulse > directory has a file, [long-number]-default-source which gains and loses the > USB device's name as it's plugged and unplugged, but that file stays the > same whether it's checked or not. > > I can't find where the checked/unchecked status is stored, or how to > hard-code it so the microphone always is selected just as soon as the > headset is plugged in. This is not good when trying to answer a Skype call. > Is there some way to make the microphone default to on? There isn't really a smooth way to do this with the current code sadly. I've written about this before and have a proposal to solve it, but I've not started work on it yet due to it not being fully approved as an approach yet. http://colin.guthr.ie/2010/02/this-is-the-route-to-hell/ 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/]
