Selecting sound output device?

[José M. Fandiño]

Jesse Sheidlower wrote:
> Now I'd like to know how to use pcm1 as the output device any time
> the USB speakers are plugged in, or at least how to control this
> manually. Both devices are present:
> 
> $ cat /dev/sndstat
> FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm)
> Installed devices:
> pcm0: <Intel ICH3 (82801CA)> at io 0x1c00, 0x18c0 irq 11 bufsz 16384 kld snd_ich (1p/1r/4v channels duplex default)
> pcm1: <USB Audio> at addr ? (1p/0r/1v channels duplex)
>         mode 1:(output) 1ch, 16/16bit, pcm, 6400-48000Hz
>         mode 2:(output) 2ch, 16/16bit, pcm, 6400-48000Hz
> 
> So, if I'm not selecting it in XMMS--if I want to use it for
> all output--how do I either automatically or explicitly select
> pcm1 as my sound output device? (I'm using the speakers with a
> laptop, so I expect to be plugging and unplugging them at other
> times than boot, if that matters.)

I haven't you hardware but I'd say that the solution involves 
playing with devd and devd.conf in such way that when the 
spakers are pluggled a softlink must be created pointing the
proper device (ln -s /dev/pcm1 /dev/pcm on attach)

Regards,
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