From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 5 12:26:46 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D523E37B404 for ; Tue, 5 Aug 2003 12:26:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from opiate.soulwax.net (CPE0030ab0ef2bb-CM000039ae486b.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com [63.138.84.149]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00DB543F75 for ; Tue, 5 Aug 2003 12:26:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from munish@opiate.soulwax.net) Received: by opiate.soulwax.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id B973977; Tue, 5 Aug 2003 15:26:28 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2003 15:26:28 -0400 From: Munish Chopra To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20030805192628.GB96322@opiate.soulwax.net> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org References: <1060103212.565.11.camel@jake> <20030805171706.GC34329@cnd.mcgill.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030805171706.GC34329@cnd.mcgill.ca> Subject: Re: Specifying default alternate sound device? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2003 19:26:47 -0000 On 2003-08-05 13:17 -0400, Mathew Kanner wrote: > On Aug 05, Adam wrote: > > Is there any easy way to specify a default alternate sound device (eg, > > /dev/dsp1). I have both onboard sound (/dev/dsp) and a SB Live card > > (/dev/dsp1), but I don't use the onboard sound. It's really frustrating > > to try to configure every single application (that uses sound) to use > > /dev/dsp1 instead. > > > > Is there some safe/easy trick to set a general rule that all/most apps > > will follow, so that they use /dev/dsp1 instead? > > With devfs, the default sound unit is tunable by a sysctl. > > tube# sysctl hw.snd.unit=0 ; ls -l dsp dsp0.0 dsp1.0 ; sysctl hw.snd.unit=1 ; ls -l dsp dsp0.0 dsp1.0 > hw.snd.unit: 1 -> 0 > crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 30, 3 Aug 5 11:24 dsp > crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 30, 3 Aug 5 11:24 dsp0.0 > crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 30, 19 Aug 5 11:24 dsp1.0 > hw.snd.unit: 0 -> 1 > crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 30, 19 Aug 5 11:24 dsp > crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 30, 3 Aug 5 11:24 dsp0.0 > crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 30, 19 Aug 5 11:24 dsp1.0 > > --Mat > -- > sig machine broken. Besides this solution, you could just turn off onboard sound in the BIOS. -- Munish Chopra