Specifying default alternate sound device?

[Mathew Kanner]

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
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