On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 05:07:46PM +0000, Jacob Meuser wrote: > On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 01:51:33PM +0200, Paul de Weerd wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 01:38:25PM +0200, Didier Wiroth wrote: > > | Hello, > > | > > | I've recently purchased a couple of logitech v20 "USB" speakers to use > > with my > > | laptop, but I'm not able to get any sound out of it. The sound comes out > > from > > | the built-in speakers, but nothing comes out from the usb speakers. > > | > > | Any ideas on how to solve this? > > | > > | P.S I'm using current, see dmesg and output of "mixerctl -v" below. > > > > The USB audio device is attached at audio1. You'll have to use that > > device to get output. cd into /dev and run MAKEDEV audio1. > > there are 3 audio devices by default since 4.5. > > You can > > (optionally) change the symlink that is /dev/audio to point to the > > newly created /dev/audio1 (and do the same for mixer and audioctl). > > Alternatively, many programs support specifying the audio device on > > the commandline. Point those at /dev/audio1. > > note that each device has 3 nodes: audio, audioctl, and mixer. if > you change the symlink for one node, you should change the others too.
meh. I always forget 'sound'. there are actually 4 nodes per device: audio, audioctl, mixer, sound. -- [email protected] SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org
