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Re: USB speaker as "internal audio"?



----- Original Message -----

> From: Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Cc: 
> Sent: Thursday, March 1, 2012 12:56 PM
> Subject: Re: USB speaker as "internal audio"?
> 
> On Thu, 01 Mar 2012 06:32:44 -0800, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote:
> 
>>  Hi, Im running Debian testing with XFCE, and PulseAudio as my sound
>>  system.
>> 
>>  I currently have a pair of cheap speakers plugged into the "sound 
> out"
>>  on my computer, and then two different USB speakers for higher-quality
>>  stuff.
>> 
>>  I want to get a pair of small USB speakers as my "main" desktop
>>  speakers. Is there a way to tell the system to use these speakers as my
>>  "internal audio" device? I want to be able to hear system sounds 
> etc.
>>  thru these speakers. Right now if I unplug the normal "sound out"
>>  speakers, i get no system sounds at all, nothing goes automatically to
>>  either of the USB speakers. In the PulseAudio volume control, the
>>  "system sounds" just has a volume slider, it doesn't let you 
> choose an
>>  output device.
> 
> This is from PA wiki:
> 
> http://www.pulseaudio.org/wiki/DefaultDevice
> 
> Which seems to point "pavucontrol", as well as this other site:
> 
> How do I switch to another audio output sink in XFCE?
> http://askubuntu.com/questions/107277/how-do-i-switch-to-another-audio-output-sink-in-xfce



Thank you! I did look at the docs but i thought that this still couldnt apply to "internal audio". But
this seems to be the trick..... I dont mind the manual setup; once its done it's done.

Jen.


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