GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 141600
No GUI for setting preferred sound device
Last modified: 2005-07-16 19:12:57 UTC
Distribution: Debian testing/unstable Package: control-center Severity: enhancement Version: GNOME2.6. 2.6.x Gnome-Distributor: GNOME.Org Synopsis: Setting preferred sound device for esound Bugzilla-Product: control-center Bugzilla-Component: sound Bugzilla-Version: 2.6.x Description: Please describe your feature request: I have two soundcards in my box. gnome-sound-properties should be the place to configure which one of them should be used by esd, given that there is no way to pass command line arguments to esd when it is started by gnome-session. Thanks, Johannes ------- Bug moved to this database by unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org 2004-05-01 17:05 ------- Unknown platform unknown. Setting to default platform "Other". Unknown milestone "unknown" in product "control-center". Setting to default milestone for this product, '---' Setting to default status "UNCONFIRMED". Setting qa contact to the default for this product. This bug either had no qa contact or an invalid one.
This is a dup of 3558. As explained in bug 118230, the right way to select the soundcard is to modify esound to read its config in esd.conf. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 3558 ***
Well, sure gnome should not ignore esd config files. But even then, not having a GUI to set basic sound prefs, such as which sound device is preferred is a severe limitation. Any mature desktop OS provides GUI access to such basic settings.
*** Bug 132437 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Actually in the new gnome volume control (2.9) there is an option to select the audio device (file/change device). I don't know if it actually sets the device as the "preferred" or just allows to change volume, but still.
*** Bug 157972 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I agree with Johannes, This should be available as not all users are aware of esd.conf.
Marking this as a duplicate of a newer bug with a patch. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 305907 ***