Re: [kde-linux] How do I set the default sound card?
- From: Ronny Standtke <Ronny.Standtke@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2007 23:42:37 +0100
Hi again,
Thank you all for your answers.
Have you checked to have the correct permission on the device linked
by /dev/soundcard ?
Can you compare the ownership and permissions of the symlink with those of
the device? That is all that I can think of, if the symlink is indeed
actually being created.
As far as I understand (and tested) ext2 and ext3 don't allow permissions for
symlinks, they are always "lrwxrwxrwx".
I read some more ALSA documentation and now I understand that /dev/dsp is
actually an OSS device node. But so far I don't know how to write a udev rule
for ALSA. I don't know what device node I do have to point to. There are so
many for a single sound card!? But anyway, maybe I don't need to...
I agree that there should be a better solution, but I'm afraid the problem
you are having here isn't much to do with KDE and everything to do with the
fact that your sound cards change their name all the time. If we can just
make them be still! ;)
Providing the drivers for your sound devices are modules you can force the
device order in modprobe.conf with the install command. Man modprobe.conf
will give you more information.
Now I understand that the order of the soundcards is random because of the
dynamic nature of hardware detection. For now we probably must take this
situation as given and must find a solution that works for "normal users"
that (unlike me) do not want to spend several days with reading documentation
and hacking some arcane rules into mystic system configuration files.
As a normal user I want to be able to just select my favorite sound output
device from a list and want KDE to try using it when I log in. When my
favorite sound device is not available (e.g. because I unplugged the USB
headset) KDE should automatically fall back to a sane default. Alternatively
I want to define an ordered list that KDE must try at startup. Let me try to
write down some ideas here (for now all regarding to ALSA because this is
what I tried so far under Linux)...
Information about all soundcards is available in /proc/asound/cards. More
detailed information about every single card is available
under /proc/asound/card<x>. There you can also find out if a card has only
capture streams (like a webcam) or if it has also playback streams (like a
normal soundcard or a headset). This information can be used to fill the list
to select or order the sound devices I mentioned above with human readable
descriptions.
When KDE starts up it can look at the same locations to find my favorite sound
device again. If it is not available it can either use the next device in the
ordered list or (if the fallback mechanism is used) search for another device
with playback streams.
Are my ideas realistic or is this just wishful thinking? Any KDE developer
listening here?
Greetings and thank you
Ronny Standtke
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