On 24/08/09 10:56, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > On Monday 24 August 2009 08:36:47 Erik P. Olsen wrote: >> On 23/08/09 16:19, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: >>> Erik P. Olsen wrote: >>>> On 23/08/09 00:59, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: >>>>> There are both system wide and user preference settings. For user >>>>> preferences, I like to use pavucontrol (Applications --> Sound & >>>>> Video --> PulseAudio Volume Control). Pick the Playback tab. You >>>>> click on the down arrow for the device you want to change the output >>>>> for, pick Move Stream, and change the output channel. >>>> The Playback window only has one down arrow at "Show" and it has three >>>> choices: "All Streams", "Applications", and "Virtual Streams". I don't >>>> see any "Move Stream" and nothing about output channel. >>>> >>>> Unfortunately pavucontrol is not self-explanatory and apparently there >>>> is no help available, so I don't see how I should use it. Perhaps >>>> PulseAudio is somewhat premature in its present state of development? >>> It sounds as if you do not have the application playing that you >>> want to direct to another output. When it is playing, you should >>> have 3 icons on the right side for your application, with the down >>> arrow icon being the one farthest to the right. >> Yes, I have apparently misunderstood the way it works. But isn't it alsa >> that directs the output to PulseAudio? When I launch alsamixer that's what >> it says. > > I believe it's the other way around. Application talks to pulseaudio which > talks to alsa which talks to hardware, when doing playback. When recording, > the data flows in the opposite direction.
I am getting more confused now. How do I then tell PulseAudio to talk to alsa? -- Erik. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines