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From: Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Switch between sound cards?
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 03:28:06
Message-Id: 5bdc1c8b0802251928l197f45a5l7297c8c8d7541c16@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Switch between sound cards? by Grant
1 On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 9:44 AM, Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com> wrote:
2 > I have a USB sound card and an internal sound card in my laptop. Is
3 > there a way to switch between them while the system is booted? Is
4 > module loading/unloading via modprobe the best way to do it?
5 >
6 > - Grant
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8 > gentoo-user@l.g.o mailing list
9 >
10 >
11
12 Grant,
13 As Florian suggested you might want to check out PulseAudio in the
14 proaudio overlay. I think it has some capability to switch the
15 destination of application audio more or less on the fly. I haven't
16 used it but it sounds interesting.
17
18 http://proaudio.tuxfamily.org/wiki/index.php?title=PulseAudio
19
20 Cheers,
21 Mark
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