Re: Hotplug audio devices

[Casey Dahlin <cjdahlin ncsu edu>]

Ray Strode wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 8/22/07, Casey Dahlin <cjdahlin ncsu edu> wrote:
>   
> > I own a USB headset, and I've found using it on Fedora to be a tad more
> > hassle than it should. Whenever I plug it in, I have to switch the
> > default soundcard in system-config-soundcard and then close any program
> > using audio so that it will change cards.
> >     
> For Fedora 8, we're switching to PulseAudio which should make this
> situation nicer.
Was hoping the pulse switch would clean things up. I'll reexamine the 
issue after the switch.
> It ships with a program (pavucontrol) for moving
> active audio stream between audio devices on the fly, for instance
> (and will reroute streams to a working device if one goes down)
>
> --Ray
>