On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 5:53 PM, Jeffrey Barish <jeff_barish at earthlink.net>wrote: > On Thursday, December 15, 2011 09:00:33 am Colin Guthrie wrote: > > 'Twas brillig, and Jeffrey Barish at 15/12/11 15:30 did gyre and gimble: > > > On Thu 15 06:48:25 Colin Guthrie wrote: > > >> 'Twas brillig, and Dalleau, Frederic at 15/12/11 09:57 did gyre and > gimble: > > >>> Hi Jeffrey, > > >>> > > >>> Maybe module-switch-on-connect can help you > > >>> http://pulseaudio.org/wiki/Modules#module-switch-on-connect > > >>> > > >>> In combination with module-default-device-restore, you should always > > >>> have the default sink point to the latest connected device. > > >> > > >> Yup, this is the short term solution. > > >> > > >> In the future (next 6 months hopefully) then the priority list routing > > >> system should make this a bit easier to configure. > > >> > > >> > > >> Col > > > > > > module-switch-on-connect looks perfect, but I don't seem to have it. I > > > am running version 0.9.21-63-gd3efa-dirty (on Ubuntu Server 10.10). > > > What do I need to do to get module-switch-on-connect? > > > > You need to update to PA 1.0+ (we recommend PA 1.1. It should be quite > > easy to build for older distros as only one additional dep in json-c. > > > > All the best. > > > > Col > > The version of pulseaudio available at the Ubuntu repository recently went > to 1:0.9.22, so it appears that I can now try using this feature. Before I > install pulseaudio, however, I am wondering what happens when I disconnect > the USB DAC. Here's the scenario about which I am wondering: I start with > nothing connected. Sound comes out the internal DAC. I connect a USB DAC. > module-switch-on-connect detects the connection of a new device and > reroutes sound to the USB DAC. Good, so far. Now I disconnect the USB > DAC. From the name of the module -- "module-switch-on-*connect*" -- it > isn't clear to me what happens. I hope that the module also switches on * > dis*connect so that the sound will revert to the internal DAC. I do not > anticipate connecting any other audio sinks, so I can probably manage for > now, at least, without a more general priority scheme -- depending on the > answer to my question, of course. > > -- > Jeffrey Barish > Oh. I misunderstood the version number. Apparently the "1:" isn't relevant, so the version is actually 0.9.22, which presents the same problem I had before. I might try to build a new version, but I couldn't get the build to work the last time I tried. -- Jeffrey Barish -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pulseaudio-discuss/attachments/20120124/30c6fa5c/attachment.htm>
