Every DE makes a sound applet of some sort to control levels, I just find most suck, or are at least diminished from pavucontrol in the name of trying to make it "simple". Sometimes we need beyond simple. That said, for a few years pavucontrol would run amok occasionally grabbing 30-40gb of memory if I wasn't watching it. Why, I never really did find out, but killing it tended to keep it in check. I haven't seen this in a bit though, so figure someone noticed the memory leak at some point, by ymmv. Glad this helped! -mb On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 3:01 PM Victor Odhner wrote: > Michael, thanks for boosting my trust in Mint. > > Yes, *pavucontrol* is available via the regular sources and works > perfectly, just as smooth as on the Mac. I only wondered why they don’t > install it by default, but I guess for some it would just be clutter. > > I got my sound running — I’m not sure what I did, but I think both my > output devices had disable buttons which I guess must have been in effect; > I hit a few buttons so I’m not sure what did it. Again, I don’t know what I > had done that shut it down in the first place. > > I thought I would concoct a panel launcher for *pavucontrol*, so I did > this: > Add to Panel > Launch > … and this led me to a menu of apps I hadn’t seen before; and one of them > was pavucontrol. > Can’t beat that! > > Thanks again. > ________________________ > > On 20190208, at 09:59, Michael Butash wrote: > > Mint's audio panel might not let you do it, but install pavucontrol, which > is pulseaudio volume control, which can (I always install and use this > only). > > When you play the video with whatever generating audio, pavucontrol should > show in "playback" menu, with the destination audio as hdmi output card. > Change that to be your other audio destination, the usb dac, and that > should be all you need to divert audio there. If you don't see another > device, ensure all are enabled in Configuration and you see them both under > Output Devices. > > Check and make sure all the playback applications are seeing audio levels, > and then make sure the appropriate output device is as well under output > does too as they can work independently. > > -mb > > On Thu, Feb 7, 2019 at 10:49 PM Victor Odhner wrote: > >> My Mac Mini's Preferences > Sound window lets me “select a device for >> sound output.” This works well driving my sound system. It detects other >> devices but lets me select my converter: >> USB > Digital-to-Analog converter > mixer board. >> >> Everything I find online seems to indicate that nobody’s created a >> similar configuration tool for Linux, that we have to use some queries and >> build a config file. The query I tried did show that there are two devices, >> but I really don’t know what I’m doing. >> >> Any instruction would be greatly appreciated. >> >> My situation: >> >> >> In my Mint system, I want to drive a monitor via HDMI, >> >> and sound via USB > Digital-to-Analog converter > mixer board. >> >> The very same connection worked when driven by the Mac Mini. >> >> Linux never had a problem with it either, but I messed up something. >> >> At one point the sound was playing through the monitor’s relatively weak >> loudspeaker. >> >> After some tinkering, nothing is coming through. >> >> Thanks, >> Victor >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > >