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Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 19:28:01 -0800
From: "Mark Knecht" <markknecht@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Switch between sound cards?
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On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 9:44 AM, Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a USB sound card and an internal sound card in my laptop.  Is
>  there a way to switch between them while the system is booted?  Is
>  module loading/unloading via modprobe the best way to do it?
>
>  - Grant
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>

Grant,
   As Florian suggested you might want to check out PulseAudio in the
proaudio overlay. I think it has some capability to switch the
destination of application audio more or less on the fly. I haven't
used it but it sounds interesting.

http://proaudio.tuxfamily.org/wiki/index.php?title=PulseAudio

Cheers,
Mark
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