[pulseaudio-discuss] ALSA plugin "device" parameter

[Lennart Poettering]

On Tue, 10.03.09 01:08, Ove Everlid (Ove.Everlid at sun.com) wrote:

>
> Sean McNamara wrote:
>> Peter,
>
>> You can select which device to use with `pavucontrol` at runtime.
>
> I can see the "default" setting in pavucontrol but under F10 and various  
> recent rawhide tests I've never been able to use pavucontrol to get  
> audio output directed to an USB head set I have.

The name "Default" for this is actually a misnomer. "Fallback" would
be more correct. It is only used when no stream-specific device data
has been saved before. The correct way to make this work is simply
moving the stream to the right device and PA will then remember.

Lennart

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