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theking2

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From: Romanshorn Switzerland

Registered: 2009-03-04

Posts: 372

play music over speakers, skype over headset

My setup isn't that exotic. I have a Asus N206 with build in Intel ALC662 sound device and a Logitech wireless headset on USB: see output of aplay -L

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    Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)
default:CARD=Intel
    HDA Intel, ALC662 rev1 Analog
    Default Audio Device
front:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
    HDA Intel, ALC662 rev1 Analog
    Front speakers
surround40:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
    HDA Intel, ALC662 rev1 Analog
    4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers
surround41:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
    HDA Intel, ALC662 rev1 Analog
    4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround50:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
    HDA Intel, ALC662 rev1 Analog
    5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers
surround51:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
    HDA Intel, ALC662 rev1 Analog
    5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround71:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
    HDA Intel, ALC662 rev1 Analog
    7.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Side, Rear and Woofer speakers
iec958:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
    HDA Intel, ALC662 rev1 Digital
    IEC958 (S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output
hdmi:CARD=HDMI
    HDA ATI HDMI, ATI HDMI
    HDMI Audio Output
default:CARD=Headset
    Logitech Wireless Headset, USB Audio
    Default Audio Device
front:CARD=Headset,DEV=0
    Logitech Wireless Headset, USB Audio
    Front speakers
surround40:CARD=Headset,DEV=0
    Logitech Wireless Headset, USB Audio
    4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers
surround41:CARD=Headset,DEV=0
    Logitech Wireless Headset, USB Audio
    4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround50:CARD=Headset,DEV=0
    Logitech Wireless Headset, USB Audio
    5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers
surround51:CARD=Headset,DEV=0
    Logitech Wireless Headset, USB Audio
    5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround71:CARD=Headset,DEV=0
    Logitech Wireless Headset, USB Audio
    7.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Side, Rear and Woofer speakers
iec958:CARD=Headset,DEV=0
    Logitech Wireless Headset, USB Audio
    IEC958 (S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output

In skype I can specify hw:2,0 as mike and CARD=Headset,DEV=0 as speakers and the ""Default device (default) as ringing and that works brilliantly. So far so good. I want to use my front speaker also to play music next to ring tones from skype. Is this possible at all with alsa?.

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archlinux on a Gigabyte C1037UN-EU, 16GiB
a Promise  PDC40718 based ZFS set
root on a Samsung SSD PB22-J
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