Re: [Hampshire] Kubuntu & multiple sound cards

On Monday 22 December 2008 15:37:46 James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
> 2008/12/22 Dominic Cleal <dominic@???>:
> > On Monday 22 December 2008 11:17:59 Vic wrote:
> >> Now I want to get Amarok to play through it on Kubuntu. In whitebox,
> >> that's just a case of setting up the default card - very easy and works
> >> flawlessly. On Kubuntu, I went into "System setting", and the audio
> >> system has a set of preferred devices for various categories of sound.
> >> So far so good.
> >>
> >> Unfortunately, I just can't get it to work. Setting my external device
> >> as the preferred unit makes no difference whatsoever: Amarok still uses
> >> the internal device.
> >
> > Amarok uses the xine engine which has its own settings. If you go to
> > Settings, Configure Amarok, Engines you can specify the ALSA devices for
> > mono/stereo, instead of "default". I suspect it's a string, something
> > like "hw:1,0" (for card 1, device 0), which you could confirm by
> > reading /proc/asound/devices.
> >
> > --
> > Dominic Cleal
> > dominic@???
>
> in the xine settings, change the various output devices to :1
> E.g.
> default:1
> plug:front:1
> plug:surround40:1
> etc

Is there not an option to turn the onboard sound off in Bios?? then maybe
Kbuntu won't see it and will select the USB instead?

Tim