[Fedora-music-list] Re: [PlanetCCRMA] Sound on laptop docking station
On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 22:02 -0500, William M. Quarles wrote:
Does anybody know which software component might be responsible for
this
kind of switching (e.g. kernel, ALSA stuff, jack stuff, etc.) so that I
might be able to submit a Bugzilla feature request somewhere?
I imagine it would be the job of alsa to autoswitch to the proper
outputs (just as it does when you insert a headphone into the headphone
jack). But maybe not alsa alone, I think there are (acpi?) events
generated on dock insertion... don't know who would take care of
servicing them.
-- Fernando
Rui Tiago Cação Matos wrote:
> This also happens on my Latitude D630. Sound isn't routed to the dock
> station as you say.
>
> Rui
>
>
> On 18/02/2009, William M. Quarles <walrus(a)bellsouth.net> wrote:
>> Hey all,
>>
>> Does anybody out there on these three lists know how to get Fedora to
>> reroute the sound from my laptop's speakers to the line out on the
>> docking station to which the laptop is connected? I'm using a Dell
>> Latitude C640 with a Dell C Dock II. The other outputs are software
>> activated usually, but the signals still come from the laptop's
>> integrated sound card (i.e. there is no actual sound hardware installed
>> in the docking station).
>>
>> Thanks,
>> William