Hotplug audio devices

[Ray Strode]

Hi,

On 8/22/07, Casey Dahlin <cjdahlin at ncsu.edu> wrote:
> I own a USB headset, and I've found using it on Fedora to be a tad more
> hassle than it should. Whenever I plug it in, I have to switch the
> default soundcard in system-config-soundcard and then close any program
> using audio so that it will change cards.
For Fedora 8, we're switching to PulseAudio which should make this
situation nicer.  It ships with a program (pavucontrol) for moving
active audio stream between audio devices on the fly, for instance
(and will reroute streams to a working device if one goes down)

--Ray