Feature added by: alaios alaios (alaios) Feature #311182, revision 1 Title: External Usb Speakers support for laptop users openSUSE.org: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: alaios alaios (alaios) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Hello this is something needed for laptop users when they plug in a lot external devices. The idea to post my idea here was suggest at this thread: http://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-technical-help-here/hardware/453416-o... Main Point: is the opensuse to redirect sound to external usb spekers when plugged in. Below you will find a typical scenario that depicts the need for such a feature Scenario: I am a laptop user and I always want to use my external usb speakers. Of course as you said I can always configure them to be the default device but this does not support well the ad-hoc action. For example I move my laptop from my working room to the living room and I forget to take with me the usb speakers. Linux boots up and uses the on board sound card as the external usb speakers were not detected. So far goes fine. Then my wife suggests me to watch a movie then I have to bring and plug in my external speakers as then I have louder and clearer sound. I plug external speakers back but ... oups sound doesnot redirect to them. If I do alsasound restart then everything works fine.. but this is something that does not work well with any program that was using the sound device. For example flash videos inside firefox crash... Then after I am watching my movie I would like to take the laptop on the couch which means that I can not have the external speakers still plugged in and I have to work with the on board sound card ... so I unplug the external speakers .. but oups no sound again. I have again to restart alsasound service (not to mention --> open console-->become root-->restart service). This is why in windows things are more straightforward... you plug in something sound redirects there (when you plugin something 90% of the time you want to use it) I am not sure if my example makes more clear why I do believe that such a feature is important. Might be also good when I connect a usb sound device to get a prompt from the os 'New Sound device detected. Do you want to use it as default?' or 'External usb speakers were removed. Do you want to fall back to the on-board sound card?' -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/311182