I am trying to set up a USB sound bar on someone else's laptop running
ubuntu 10.10 with a gnome desktop.
Since it did not work out of the box, I thought I'd first enhance my
non-existent skills in this area by first practicising on my machine
with debian ‘lenny’ and no DE environment.
I discovered rather quickly that what goes on behind the scenes is that
said sound bar is (emulates?) an additional sound card.
As a result, I have to direct each program that produces some form or
other of sound output to use the second audio device rather than the
default builtin sound card.
I am able to get ‘mplayer’ to do this but I have no idea how I could
convince the flash plugin behind my web browser to do this, for
instance.
Is there any way I can make the sound bar the system's default and be
done with it?