Re: usb microphone on X1 Carbon

You could avoid restarting sndiod in most cases: There's a
'server.device' control exposed by sndioctl(1), to switch between
devices with similar capabilities.

Ah, makes it much easier!  Thanks!

Dave

David J. Raymond
David.Raymond@nmt.edu
http://kestrel.nmt.edu/~raymond

On Sat, Jul 26, 2025 at 11:09 PM Alexandre Ratchov <alex@caoua.org> wrote:

On Sat, Jul 26, 2025 at 04:29:23PM -0600, Raymond, David wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Thanks for the advice -- I do have a headphone set that works.  However, I
> needed to get something I could hear/speak from across the room in a zoom
> yoga class and to keep things as simple as possible, I got a little USB
> conference speaker/mike.  After fussing a while I figured out that this
> could be activated by restarting sndiod with the argument -f rsnd/1 and
> going back to the internal speakers with -f rsnd/0.  It works great!

You could avoid restarting sndiod in most cases: There's a
'server.device' control exposed by sndioctl(1), to switch between
devices with similar capabilities.