From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 15 00:17:55 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7358106566B for ; Wed, 15 Feb 2012 00:17:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tjg@soe.ucsc.edu) Received: from mail-01.cse.ucsc.edu (mail-01.cse.ucsc.edu [128.114.48.32]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C507D8FC16 for ; Wed, 15 Feb 2012 00:17:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-01.cse.ucsc.edu (mail-01.cse.ucsc.edu [128.114.48.32]) by mail-01.cse.ucsc.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9628B1009B99 for ; Tue, 14 Feb 2012 16:00:35 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 16:00:35 -0800 (PST) From: Tim Gustafson To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <1777858593.173502.1329264035512.JavaMail.root@mail-01.cse.ucsc.edu> In-Reply-To: <214979068.173438.1329263776548.JavaMail.root@mail-01.cse.ucsc.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Originating-IP: [128.114.49.22] X-Mailer: Zimbra 6.0.9_GA_2686 (ZimbraWebClient - FF3.0 ([unknown])/6.0.9_GA_2686) Subject: FreeBSD / Gnome / Audio X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 00:17:55 -0000 Hello, I've read through a zillion posts in the FreeBSD forums and various other Google sources about getting audio to work in Gnome on FreeBSD. Most of the posts say something like "pulseaudio sucks, don't use it", and that's fine, but what do I replace it with? Since I've removed pulseaudio from all my installed ports, I now have no audio control panel under "System", "Preferences", and I have no volume control slider near the clock. Audio is working in that I can play a video in Firefox and hear the audio, but it's currently coming out the wrong sound card (for whatever reason, Dell's audio card shows up twice: once for the internal speaker and once for the external speaker/headphone jacks). So I can't tell Gnome to push the audio out /dev/dsp1 now, rather than /dev/dsp0. Basically, how do I control how applications put sound out to my system when pulseaudio is not installed? -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Tim Gustafson tjg@soe.ucsc.edu Baskin School of Engineering 831-459-5354 UC Santa Cruz Baskin Engineering 317B -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-