Pulseaudio config problem.

[Erik P. Olsen]

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.

-- 
Erik.