[pulseaudio-discuss] Changing default soundcard on attach/detach of soundcards

[Geralt]

Hi,

thanks for your replies :-)

On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 5:43 PM, Michał Sawicz <michal at sawicz.net> wrote:
> Dnia 2010-06-11, pią o godzinie 23:37 +0200, Geralt pisze:
>> I've got three soundcards: my onboard card (sd1), my usb card (sd2)
>> and my headset (sd3) and I want the default card to be the one with
>> the highest numbering in the sdX naming scheme that is currently
>> attached to the system.
>
> Eh? No idea what sdX mean here.
>
I was refering to either sd1, sd2 or sd3.

> If you want your audio to be heard over headset, then usb card, then
> onboard card, depending on which are available, just set them as
> fallbacks with pavucontrol or gnome-volume-control in the reverse
> direction (that's - connect your usb card, set it as fallback, then
> connect your headset and set that as fallback). That should be enough in
> at least with a recent enough PA.
>
That's exactly what I want and thanks for mentioning pavucontrol, I
didn't know of this application (I've basically zero experience with
Pulseaudio, yet).

On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 11:08 PM, Colin Guthrie <gmane at colin.guthr.ie> wrote:
> 'Twas brillig, and Geralt at 11/06/10 22:37 did gyre and gimble:
>> Hi everybody,
>>
>> I've got an onboard soundcard and two usb soundcards and I'd like it
>> if pulseaudio could switch automatically the default sound card (or
>> default sink to be more precise) depending on the soundcards that are
>> currently plugged in. Is this possible?
>>
>> In case it's not clear what I want, let me explain it on an example:
>>
>> I've got three soundcards: my onboard card (sd1), my usb card (sd2)
>> and my headset (sd3) and I want the default card to be the one with
>> the highest numbering in the sdX naming scheme that is currently
>> attached to the system.
>
> Bascially you want a priority list of defaults and the current default
> to the the highest priority available device to be the one used?
>
> This is possible but no GUI exists on Gnome to exploit it just yet.
>
> This is the routing policy used under KDE, and the PA module
> module-device-manager implements this in PulseAudio.
>
> Sadly my proposal to make PA's routing policy work in a (IMO) much more
> sensible way, has not yet been endorsed by Lennart so I've not started
> working on it. I'm pretty confident that even with some issues it
> creates, it's a far more sensible configuration system than is currently
> available.
>
> The behaviour you describe would work perfectly under this setup, even
> if the priority list itself is never actually exposed to the user via
> confirguration GUIs.
>
> Even the current module-default-device-restore does not actually work on
> hotplug etc. (as the default is worked out at startup and then set, so
> it's idea of the "default device" is lost).
>
> Here is my proposal:
> http://colin.guthr.ie/2010/02/this-is-the-route-to-hell/
>
>
> Hopefully when Lennart is less busy, we can revisit the discussions and
> I can convince him I'm right!
>
That is exactly what I want, however I don't use KDE, is there still a
way to use youre pulseaudio module?



Geralt