On 03/10/12 16:46, Toby Corkindale wrote:
Heya,
I use Pulseaudio, and I frequently use a USB audio device. However I find that when I plug the device in, I have to go into the settings (eg. pavucontrol) and switch output over to the new device from the default built-in audio.
What I would love is for Pulseaudio to just output to EVERYTHING. I realise it'll waste a bit of CPU time sending audio to the hdmi monitor and the built-in soundcard.. but eh, whatever. There's an i7 CPU in this machine, it'll cope.
Any suggestions on how to tweak it to do this?
Cheers, Toby Hi Toby I setup my systems months ago and I my memory can be dodgy but here goes. I used aplay to list the hardware sound devices
aplay -l **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices **** card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 0: ALC892 Analog [ALC892 Analog] Subdevices: 0/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 1: ALC892 Digital [ALC892 Digital] Subdevices: 0/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 1: Generic [HD-Audio Generic], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 2: DSP [Plantronics .Audio 655 DSP], device 0: USB Audio [USB Audio] Subdevices: 0/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 [nic@localhost ~]$ then I added three lines to the end of /etc/pulse/default.pa ### Load analog device load-module module-alsa-sink device=hw:0,1 load-module module-combine-sink sink_name=combined set-default-sink combined Then I restarted the pulseaudio and then fired up pavucontrol and found different options for simultaneous output. I can not remember why I used devicehw:0,1 but it works for me. Cheers Nic