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

[Peter Tribble]

On Sun, Jul 13, 2025 at 10:46 PM Gary Mills <gary_mills at fastmail.fm> wrote:

> On Sun, Jul 13, 2025 at 10:15:32AM +0000, Apostolos Syropoulos via
> openindiana-discuss wrote:
> > This is the link I wanted to post but the yahoo mail app posted
> something else...
> >
> https://alanhargreaves.wordpress.com/2011/04/17/making-audio-default-to-a-second-sound-device-in-solaris-11/
>
> I looked at that page.  It may be correct for Solaris-11, but it's not
> necessary for illumos or OI.  All you have to do is insert
> AUDIODEV=/dev/sound/something into your .profile file, where
> "something" is a symlink that's correct for your system.  In my case,
> it's just "1".
>

For some applications, but not all. That will catch the built-in audio
utilities,
anything using gstreamer, possibly other audio platforms. There's a whole
slew of applications out in the wild that simply open() /dev/audio and
write to
it. And that environment variable doesn't necessarily translate to the
audioctl
or dsp devices.

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