Re: [orca-list] pulseaudio frustration

[Janina Sajka <janina rednote net>]

You can certainly choose which card will be the default. You do this in
the appropriate module control files under /etc. On Fedora that's
/etc/modprobe.conf. The exact filename on Debian and Ubuntu is
different, but the result is the same. Whichever device you specify as
device 0 will become the default. Here's part of such a configuration
from one of my machines:


alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel
options snd-card-0 index=0
options snd-hda-intel index=0
alias snd-card-1 snd-ca0106
options snd-card-1 index=1
options snd-ca0106 index=1
alias snd-card-2 snd-hdsp
options snd-card-2 index=2
options snd-hdsp index=2
alias snd-card-3 snd-usb-audio
options snd-card-3 index=3
options snd-usb-audio index=3

If you want, further control by class of audio is available via System /
Preferences /Hardware /Sound on the Gnome Desktop.

Janina

Scott Rutkowski writes:
> Hi Peter and all.
>
> I agree with Peter. I have 2 soundcards in 1 pc and I cant change the 
> default card for all music sounds speech etc. It's annoying me cause I want 
> to simply have 1 card to deal with all sound and the other card seems to be 
> detected as the card to use and the  wrong card is being detected by 
> default.
> If anyone can help us, please let us know.
> I know pulse audio is a great system just hard for us new users's and 
> inaccessable software to configure it the way you want.
> Thanks.
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Peter Vágner" <peter v datagate sk>
> To: "Orca screen reader developers" <orca-list gnome org>
> Sent: Friday, April 25, 2008 4:13 AM
> Subject: [orca-list] pulseaudio frustration
>
>
> > Hello Guys,
> > You know pulseaudio is the default system for handling sound in Ubuntu
> > hardy. Recently also speech-dispatcher has been configured to use it by
> > default. When only 1 sound card is used everything runs smoothly. But I
> > have always problems configuring my system so music, movies, systems
> > sounds etc goes through primary soundcard and speech output throught the
> > second one. Speaking in the alsa terms they are the default and
> > default:1 devices.
> > Perhaps there is a way to load all the devices manually in the
> > /etc/pulse/default.pa file but in ubuntu hardy they are autodetected
> > somehow. I can't determine which pulseaudio servers do actually run on
> > my system so I cant tweak speech-dispatcher configuration properly.
> > To make it even worse I have tryed using various pulseaudio utilities
> > e.g. pulseaudio volume control and one more tool which name I cant
> > remember. That other tool is supposed to detect all the pulseaudio
> > servers on the network but It even fails to start on my machine. Going
> > back to pulseaudio volume control I can see this tool is not verry
> > accessible and I am afraid such incredible features like redirecting
> > streams to diferent output devices, changing the defauld device without
> > a reboot is not possible for us using Orca.
> > I feel for a blind user having control over a sound equipment is a must.
> > Can anyone help me to understand this or at least assist me with the
> > configuration I would like to achieve?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Peter
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