[OpenIndiana-discuss] OI Audio System Selects Wrong Audio Device

[Gary Mills]

On Sat, Jul 12, 2025 at 06:58:47PM -0500, Tim Mooney via openindiana-discuss wrote:
> In regard to: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI Audio System Selects Wrong Audio...:

> I know you know about AUDIODEV environment variable, but I doubt that will
> be helpful here.

It will.  I'm embarrassed to report that I tried Youtube on Firefox
yesterday, and heard audio.  I haven't changed anything.  I don't know
why I got the idea that it was silent, but perhaps is was too quiet to
hear, or perhaps the audio was even muted at the time.  In any case,
audio does work from Youtube.  One of the Pulseaudo modules does
contain the string "AUDIODEV".  I have that evironment variable set to
"/dev/sound/1".  I'm running
"library/audio/pulseaudio at 17.0-2024.0.0.0:20240216T222830Z" of the
Pulseaudo package.  I assume later versions do the same thing.

The Solaris, and illumos, way to specify an audio device is with the
AUDIODEV environment variable.  The Linux way is with configuration.
The OI way seems to be with an invisible configuration that can't be
changed by an ordinary user.

> Does using get-default-sink and set-default-sink make any
> difference?

They show "oss_output.dsp1" and "oss_input.dsp1".  I believe that
that's correct, and that the first audio device would be "dsp0".  All
seems to be okay after all.

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