Mariane
January 21st, 2010, 01:27 PM
Hi,
Is there a simple way to redirect sound output? I watched a movie yesterday with vlc and I had to listen to the sound out of the laptop speakers. This is never loud enough so I missed half the dialog. I had tried pluging in headphones but it just said "jack server not found" or simply ignored them.
I tried fiddling with the drivers
Re-install:
sudo apt-get --purge remove linux-sound-base
sudo apt-get install linux-sound-base
sudo apt-get install alsa-base
sudo apt-get install alsa-utils
Re-build:
sudo apt-get install module-assistant
sudo module-assistant a-i alsa-source
Make sure it's taken into account:
sudo dpkg-reconfigure kdm-kde4
And reboot.
It didn't help.
I am also sometimes using a headphone with an integrated sound card which plugs into a usb port and this is a real nuisance to get to work as I have to modify some file in a directory with the sweet name of modprobe.d and reboot each time.
I would like a program which would allow me to say "send the sound to the jack port" or "send the sound to the usb port number 3" or "send the sound to the laptop speakers" or "don't send out any sound at all" without rebooting. And without trying to detect the device because the detection may fail, just trust me that the device is there.
Does such a program exist, please?
Mariane
Is there a simple way to redirect sound output? I watched a movie yesterday with vlc and I had to listen to the sound out of the laptop speakers. This is never loud enough so I missed half the dialog. I had tried pluging in headphones but it just said "jack server not found" or simply ignored them.
I tried fiddling with the drivers
Re-install:
sudo apt-get --purge remove linux-sound-base
sudo apt-get install linux-sound-base
sudo apt-get install alsa-base
sudo apt-get install alsa-utils
Re-build:
sudo apt-get install module-assistant
sudo module-assistant a-i alsa-source
Make sure it's taken into account:
sudo dpkg-reconfigure kdm-kde4
And reboot.
It didn't help.
I am also sometimes using a headphone with an integrated sound card which plugs into a usb port and this is a real nuisance to get to work as I have to modify some file in a directory with the sweet name of modprobe.d and reboot each time.
I would like a program which would allow me to say "send the sound to the jack port" or "send the sound to the usb port number 3" or "send the sound to the laptop speakers" or "don't send out any sound at all" without rebooting. And without trying to detect the device because the detection may fail, just trust me that the device is there.
Does such a program exist, please?
Mariane