On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 03:17:53PM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi, > I'm finally joining the 21st century having purchased my first new > TV in more than 13 years. My laptop runs KDE with Nvidia drivers. I'm > wondering what the process is to switch the audio & video output of my > laptop the its HDMI port? I'd like to try using xine to play DVDs. I > assume in Linux I'm going to have to mess with both Alsa and X which > in the end sounds like a disaster waiting to happen but I figure I > might as well see if it's actually easier than I think. > […] > Anyway, just looking for someone to point me in the right direction.
I am administrating the laptop of a friend of mine. She’s running KDE 4.4 on Debian Squeeze with Intel graphics and an external monitor/TV. KDE can switch audio to an external monitor by itself using System settings → Hardware → Multimedia → Phonon. There, in the Device Priority tab, you’ll have to change the order of items (i.e. put HDMI to the top) and then all programs that use phonon route their sound to HDMI. I *believe* that when the monitor is not present (after all, it’s a laptop), the sound should automatically be routed to the next device in the list. But I think that we had some problems in that regard. But then again, she’s running an outdated KDE. -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' I forbid any use of my email addresses with Facebook services. Die schwierigste Turnübung ist, sich selbst auf den Arm zu nehmen.
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