Making audio default to a second sound device in Solaris 11
It finally got to me. I’ve got a nice USB audio adapter that I use at home on my Tecra M11, but I was only ever able to get firefox to use the builtin audio on Solaris 11. I could make it work under Virtual Box by importing it, but I have a nice sound setup in my office and I really wanted to use the Roland/Cakewalk UA-1G natively.
Searching the web found me lots of people asking the question and nothing in the way of answers.
I’d already tried
# cd /dev
# rm audio audioctl
# ln -s sound/1 audio
# ln -s sound/1ctl audioctl
but flash was still playing through the internal speakers.
The answer came when I ran pfiles on the firefox-bin process, I noticed that it had the dsp device for the internal audio controller open.
What I had forgotten was
# rm dsp
# ln -s dsp1 dsp
I went and started a youtube video and had to immediately halt it as the volume through the other device had been set WAY too high, but yea that’s all it took.
The creation of a script called audio that takes an argument of the device is then trivial, and left as an exercise for the reader (yes I’ve already written one).
