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Setting up Tux Droid as an audio device
This How-to applies to:
Any version.
This How-to is intended for:
End User
By default your audio settings will remain fixed to your built-in PC audio card after connecting Tux Droid. In order to use Tux Droid for audio playback, your audio programs need to be configured to use the USB audio device of Tux Droid. Doing this doesn't require any special driver to be installed as it is recognized as a generic USB-audio module or the ALSA snd-usb-audio driver to be more precise. On many distro's this module is installed by default. In case you require info about Tux Droid and ALSA go here.
Below will be illustrated what kind of settings are required to get Tux Droid working with your audio programs.
- XMMS music player
- Gnome Desktop Environment
- KDE Desktop Environment
1. XMMS music player.
- Step 1: Go to the preference windows and in the audio I/O plugins tab select the OSS driver as output plugin. Like this:
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Click the Test button to check if you can hear a beep sound coming from the Tux Droid speaker and you are all set. |
- Step 2: Now click on the configure button. You will be taken to the OSS driver configuration windows and change the settings accordingly:
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| Confirm the settings by clicking ok and your XMMS is configured to play music trough Tux Droid. |
The Gnome Desktop Environment
Several programs are desktop environment dependent when it comes to the audio device settings, meaning their settings can't be modified individually. For the Gnome environment, Rhythmbox Music player and the Totem movie player are typical built-in applications. To get those working with Tux Droid, the sound preferences in the Gnome Desktop need to be modified.
Go in the desktop menu under System > Preferences and select sound. In the sound preferences window you change the following settings:
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Click the Test button to check if you can hear a beep sound coming from the Tux Droid speaker and you are all set. |
The KDE Desktop Environment
For the KDE users: go to the Control Center and select Sound System in Sound & Multimedia. Next, make the following selections:
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Tux Droid audio USB device is listed here as /dev/dsp1. This will
likely be the case on most systems. But on some this might be
different, for example if you have more than one audio card installed.
In this case Tux Droid will be the /dev/dsp2 device... |