[CentOS] dual sound

[Christopher Chan]

On Saturday, July 30, 2011 03:29 AM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
> m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
>> Les Mikesell wrote:
>>> On 7/29/2011 1:22 PM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
>>>>
>>>> And I've had the external speakers jacked in both in the front
>>>> "headphones" jack, and the traditional one in the back, and sound comes
>>>> both out of the external speakers and a speaker inside the machine.
>>>
>>> That's usually a hardware thing where plugging something into the
>>> headphone jack breaks the connections to the speakers.
>>
>> I know. That's why I mentioned what I'd done, and that I was confused,
>> because that's the result I expected, and I'm not getting it.
>
> I *think* I've got it: my manager suggested pavucontrol, but the only
> place I found that was a repo he'd rather I didn't use. Then I tried
> playing, again, with kmix from the panel, and this time I went to
> configure it, and tried adding the control for IEC958I; I mute that, and
> it seems to be quiet, and the speakers are working.
>
>         mark "system-config-soundcard is too complicated, I guess..."
>

What happened to the screaming and pulseaudio bashing? This is so serene...