On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 07:40:01PM +0100, Lukas Ruzicka wrote:
Yeah, this is the option to set it as a default device :) Funny,
ain't it?
I think it has something to do with the options to set specific devices for
specific applications on the "Playback" tab. This way, you could route your
Firefox sounds through a different device and your Rhythmbox music through
another one. I have tried, it's splendid. When, however, such a device does
not exist, the playback returns to the default (fallback) one. If the
fallback one disappears, but another is present, it would fallback to that
present device, so your system should never remain soundless.
Yeah, I definitely see why that would be awesome if that's what I wanted to
do.
I think maybe this is happening when I come back and the screen has been
asleep. Maybe the external USB sound device is also sleeping, and so appears
to not exist temporarily, causing the system to, well, _fall back_ to the
other available non-default device. Since that's not plugged into anything
with speakers, that means the system goes soundless after all.
So maybe I just have a weird case here.
> so that should solve my immediate problem. (There are also
Realtek USB
> audio devices, which are the front and rear audio jacks on the system,
> but those were _already_ Off, through no known action of mine.)
It is probably clever enough to recognize no output speaker is connected to
it and therefore it is inactive.
This totally makes sense -- the Navi 10 audio, the one Firefox ends up
pointing to, is connected by HDMI, and plugged into a monitor. Not sure if
there's a way for the system to know that that monitor has no sound output
options.
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