From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Alexander E. Patrakov" Subject: Idea about the laptop speakers Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 09:40:01 +0500 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by alsa0.perex.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42179244C2 for ; Thu, 11 Dec 2008 05:41:24 +0100 (CET) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LAdMT-00049U-4X for alsa-devel@alsa-project.org; Thu, 11 Dec 2008 04:41:21 +0000 Received: from 90.151.141.177 ([90.151.141.177]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 11 Dec 2008 04:41:17 +0000 Received: from patrakov by 90.151.141.177 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 11 Dec 2008 04:41:17 +0000 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org Errors-To: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org To: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org Hello developers, some time ago, people complained that the sound came out from both the laptop speakers and headphones. While in many cases this is not desirable, I think this effect (when configurable via opening a different PCM) can be useful in the following situation. Suppose that you have a laptop as your main working machine. The headset is always connected, but you are not always near the laptop (e.g., think better if you walk in the room). Then, you configure (by telling it to open different devices) your SIP softphone to play voice through headphones only, but play ringtones through both headphones and speakers. Thus, you can walk in the room without being afraid to miss a call. Is the above proposal implementable? -- Alexander E. Patrakov